- Public Domain - Any music in the public domain is either entirely out of copyright, or has been placed in the public domain by the composer/arranger/editor. You can basically do what you like with this music - print it out, sell it, change it, distribute it, record it, and perform it, etc. For more information, see the Creative Commons website at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/

- MutopiaBSD [being phased out, no longer accepted for new music] - This licence is only slightly more restrictive. You can basically do what you like with the music, but there is a copyright message which must appear with any copies or derivative works of the music. The notice is as follows:
Permission is hereby granted, without written agreement and without license or royalty fees, to use, copy, modify, distribute, perform and record this music and to distribute, perform and record modified versions of this music for any purpose, provided that the above copyright notice, this paragraph and the following disclaimer appear with all copies of this music, whatever the format of the copy, printed, audio or otherwise.

THIS MUSIC IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
NB. This copyright message is too large to be printed on the bottom on the piece of music. Therefore, it must be distributed separately if you distribute music under the MutopiaBSD license. It is available for download here as a Postscript (.ps) file or here as a PDF (.pdf) file. These are suitable for printing out on either A4 or letter sized paper. For more information on printing out Postscript and PDF files, see the help page (neither of these files is gzipped).

- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 [being phased out, no longer accepted for new music] - This licence says that you are free to copy, distribute, display and perform the work, make derivative works, and make commercial use of the work. You must, however, give the original author credit, and if you alter, transform, or build upon the work, you must distribute the resulting work under an identical licence. For more information, see the Creative Commons website at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/.
Music released under this licence on Mutopia is given the additional permission that attribution is not required in audio derivatives of the work.

- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 - This licence says that you are free to copy, distribute, display and perform the work, make derivative works, and make commercial use of the work. You must, however, give the original author credit, and if you alter, transform, or build upon the work, you must distribute the resulting work under an identical licence. For more information, see the Creative Commons website at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/.

- Free Art License: More information about this coypright on : http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/

- CPDL copyright license: This is a type of open-source license which allows users to download, print, copy and distribute a score freely. The only restriction is that, if any changes are made to a score or text, the subsequent modified version must still be released under the same license conditions.
Full licence text available on : http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/ChoralWiki:CPDL

- Arrangment Copyright : All sheet music that we feature with an arrangment notice is protected as a derivative work. You can't distribute, display and distribute the sheet music without authorisation of arrangers. Over commercial use is prohibed.

- Personal Copyright : This copyright applied to all contributor of free-scores.com database which want to make available their own compositions.
This copyright is shown on free-scores.com like "Copyright Artist name © All rights reserved". You will have only the right to play the music on private area.