Caprotti wrote:I have examined the site you quote and I see that they give for free a lot of interesting scores, above all in the Opera section.
However, some members have also uploaded scores that were previously uploaded to Pianophilia, ASKING FOR MONEY for their download (e.g. Mozart's Symphony in A K.201 in the 2H of L.Rohr).
I sent a message to the administrators sying that I'll communicate this information to the libraries that originally own that kind of scores (still visible in the copy for sale). Those libraries should undertake legal actions, according to the european laws dealing with libraries' copyright for old scores owned in a single copy.
This is a bad situation, however I don't think many libraries would bother to do anything about it.
Of course, there are also paysites which only offer public domain scores. Stupidly, I joined one
of them, only to find some of my own old files 'for sale'. In effect, I'd unintentionally given them
various scores for free and they were charging me to have them back.