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Musescore.com and musescore.org has been acquired by Ultimate Guitar. I’m the founder of Ultimate Guitar. Nice to meet you. The situation is this: Musescore.co

by zappp 6y ago

Musescore.com and musescore.org has been acquired by Ultimate Guitar. I’m the founder of Ultimate Guitar. Nice to meet you. The situation is this: Musescore.com was about to get shut down because of massive copyright infringement. The future of MS Editor would be unclear under those circumstances. After the acquisition, we’ve made deals with all major music publishers plus thousands of independent publishers to license its offering. The downside of the process is that we had to takedown about 1% of the catalog (however the current offering grew x2 since then). Upside is this: 1. Catalog is still free for everyone 2. Downloads are restricted just for copyrighted songs, because 3. Copyright owners get paid for their content since then 4. Original and public domain songs have no download restriction 5. Since acquisition the team behind MuseScore grew x7 times, as well as open source contributor community grew x2. 6. We are at 3.6 version now, which is the last stable version before 4.x, which is coming this year 7. 4.x will likely feature major workflow improvements, playback improvements, VST support etc. I’m happy to answer all your questions.

meibo 6y ago
Thanks for your answer! That certainly gives it some more context, I appreciate it - shame that even community created "covers" need to be covered by copyright now, since they're often quite transformative, but I guess this is the world we live in. The articles I read on this at the time were putting it in quite a negative light, that must have had an impact on my judgement - either way, I'm happy that you're successful with this model and that you can make scoring music more accessible with your open source software. (I've used musescore from middle school through university, so it's definitely had an impact on me!) Apologies for making unsubstantiated comments and thanks for clarifying.

by zappp 6y ago

meibo 6y ago

Thanks for your answer! That certainly gives it some more context, I appreciate it - shame that even community created "covers" need to be covered by copyright now, since they're often quite transformative, but I guess this is the world we live in. The articles I read on this at the time were putting it in quite a negative light, that must have had an impact on my judgement - either way, I'm happy that you're successful with this model and that you can make scoring music more accessible with your open source software. (I've used musescore from middle school through university, so it's definitely had an impact on me!) Apologies for making unsubstantiated comments and thanks for clarifying.