F.A.Q. for sellers :

What is the Public Performance license ?
License granted by you and authorize musician to play your music during public events only (concerts and live performances).
This license has a minimum validity of 1 year for an unlimited number of performances.
This license is not a license to reproduce or a license to broadcast audio files. It is not valid for the concert organizers.

What is the License for Educational Purposes delivered by free-scores.com ?
License granted by you and allows teachers to teach and play your music in the context of individual or group lessons.
It also allows public performances in school establishment
This license has a minimum validity of 1 year for an unlimited number of performances.

Who provides the final authorization?
Free-scores.com is only a channel through which you distribute your permissions under Free-scores.com license sales. Only you have the right to authorize or not the use of your work in public. However, using the service to sell Free-scores.com license and in accordance with our terms and conditions, you delegate the technical management of these authorizations by free-scores.com automatically via our transaction system. You agree that the license granted to a user by free-scores.com is actually your own personal authorization.

Why should i feature to buy licenses while my scores are free to download on free-scores.com ?
You offer on free-scores.com comprehensive and freely accessible scores. Using Free-scores.com as a delivery you stay within the context of sharing and accessibility of your work to a wider audience. By cons it is normal that if public performance of your scores, musicians ask for your permission and that it is paid (you can also offer the free license). A number of visitors take the plunge and you write messages to ask for your permission. But we believe that a significant part of the musicians never take the plunge for a number of reasons, here are a few: afraid your answer is no, fear of the amount you could claim them, for lack of time or motivation to make contact, or lack of explanation and context: as the scores is free, while some believe that you can do anything with your free scores ...).
The free-scores.com license provides a clear and precise framework for the musician to know that action on his part is necessary if he wants to play your part in public.
Buy a free-scores.com license amounts to the same thing as buying a scores retroactively trade. Generally buy an original score Trade implicitly allows the authorization of the composer, it is the same with the free-scores.com license. The only differences being that the license is limited in time (per 1 year) and your partition is free.

Is that all scores are affected by these licenses?
No, you have to be full owner of the copyright and publishing rights of affected scores. We do not allow the exploitation of the work in connection with the sale of license under this program if it is akin to the "copy fraud" (commercial exploitation of a public domain work). Your score, if it comes from a public domain work should be an arrangement that provides additional value that is not currently represented on our site as a version of a different main instrument(s), an adaptation to a specific level or arrangement in a style that is different from the original and more generally that is not a simple transcription of the original work or arrangement of any other commercial or free publisher. If we determine that the arrangement does not contain enough unique value, then we reserve the right to reject and block the licensing of scores involved.

I am already an associate of an author's society , is that a problem ?
If you are an associate of an author's society (such as SACEM) know that this license is compatible with your affiliation. An organization such as SACEM is for concert organizers, the media that carry the declarations and payments of royalties. Your free-scores.com license speaks directly to the musicians. You allow the musician to use your score, it does not affect the obligation of the organizers to pay their fees to management author's society.

What price should I offer?
We recommend practicing a price that is of the same order of magnitude as those on the market for the sale of digital sheet music. For example for a solo piano piece, prices are between 2 and 6.99 USD$. Adjust the price depending on the size of the work, an orchestral score will always cost more than a piece for solo piano.

Explanation of license management and "Default Rates" ?
On the page http://www.free-scores.com/espace-membres-uk/parametres_licences.php there are 3 parts :
• the check box "Licences scores activation" : If you uncheck this option will disable all license sales on free-scores.com for your scores.
• the form "Default Rates" :
- If your prices are always the same for each scores, complete this form once for each and every time you add a scores, set your prices with a single click, having previously fulfilled your Default Rate.
- Also you can make price changes on a set of scores using the listing of your scores which is present below this form. Note that changing the default rates do not change the price of scores. you'll always need to click on "apply the default rates" to apply the default rates on scores selected.
An example: you are a composer with fifty pieces on free-scores.com, half are piano solo scores and the other half are orchestral scores. You probably want to assign different rates depending on whether the scores is for piano or orchestra. Begin to define a default price with the "default rates" form for solo piano, then check the cases of all piano solo in the listing and click at the very bottom of the list the link called "Apply default rates." Then repeat the same process with the orchestral pieces, having previously changed the default rates.
•"Scores list": This is the listing of your scores, check boxes on the right column of the table allow you to group your scores for applying default rates.

Paid and unpaid events?
Means paid events, all concerts and live performances with musicians playing your score will be paid by the organizer of the event.
Means all unpaid charity events and volunteers whose musicians playing your score are not paid. We distinguish the two cases like this you have the choice to offer less expensive licenses (or free) for unpaid events. You can also set the same rate in both cases. It makes sense to indicate a higher fee for paid events.

Why are there several price fields to complete?
The basic price is field that is surrounded by orange for "unpaid event" and "one musician" If the check box "automatic calculation" is set, then write a prize in this box will also fill the other boxes in a free-scores.com coefficient which is indicative. You have the ability to change prices manually. In this case an icon in the shape of a broken chain appear next to the amended tariff. Click this icon broken chain for automatic calculation is active again on this field.

What means the "Band formation" column ?
This is the number of musicians who can play your music together in the same public performance. The musician numbers represents different configurations of musicians. Buy a license for 2-5 players is suitable for duo to quintet band.

Explanations and tips to fill in the price:
- If you leave a field with the value 0.00, the license concerned shall be considered free for a period of 1 year (except in the case mentioned in the next line).

- Prices defined lower level are defined priority. This means that you can not fix cheapest price for 2-5 musiciens that the price set for 1 musicien. If you enter a value in the "1 musicien" all other top fields will default to the same rate, unless you specify a value greater than the fields.

- Our shopping cart system is in its first beta. It is likely that you encounter inconsistencies in setting your prices. For example if you set the price for a quartet score it is likely that you do not want to appear the license for only 1 musician. Indeed, for a quartet is supposed to be 4 musicians, so the license for 2-5 musiciens would be one that is most suited. However you have to set a price in the box "1 musician."
You have two possible strategies of price in the case of this quartet:
• Either you put the same price in the boxes "1 musician" and "2-5 musicians".
• Or enter in the box "1 musician" with a divided by 4 compared to the "2-5 musician" check price. That leaves it up to each musician to pay its share and that everyone has an individual license.
However, because of Paypal bank charges for each transaction, the fewest transactions is preferred to maximize your final income.
We therefore recommend the first solution is to let the license with an indivisible price and place the same price for 1 musician and for 2-5 musicians (in the case of our quartet).

Here is another case where you might find an inconsistency. If you set prices for a solo piano piece, it may be incongruous to set prices for 2-5 musicians or even 21 + musicians since the piece is played alone. But you still need to fill in these fields prices. In this case, let the computer fix the prices of other cells that do not really relate to the part.

How and how much do I get paid?
You must have a paypal account. You will receive instant payment for each purchase to your Paypal account. You will earn 70% of the amount deducted from commission fees of the transaction through PayPal. Free-scores.com be paid up to 30% on each sale.

Are buyers can tell us the use they will make of this license?
ot yet, but we plan to implement a private messaging system so that the buyer can leave a comment during the purchase process. It is not yet in place. At the moment we invite buyers to leave you a message in your contact box.

What evidence will the buyer on the authenticity of a license?
After each purchase, a certificate of approval will be sent to the purchaser of the license. This authentic certificate can not be forged through the establishment of several QR codes Control Survey pointing to our server database. They used to verify the authenticity and validity of the certificate in any Internet-connected location.

Once prices are set for each scores, what should I do?
There is a very important step that can conditioner success of your license : indeed it is highly advisable to turn the free-scores.com cover page on. If you set up a license, the front page of your PDF will display an area dedicated to the license so that the musician does not lose sight of this information. If your PDF is already in line before setting up your license, you will need to regenerate the page of your PDF. Convert PDF with our service automatic conversion of PDF.