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Of course there is no legal precedent interpreting this license, because it has never, as far as I know, been litigated at all. The text of the license is quite plain, however, and you must understand that no permission is given except as expressed by the license. Also, while it is not necessarily s...

It is both of those things. Your argument is legally unsound. Being an "Adaptation" for the purposes of the license does not require creativity or originality, but includes (various types of changes) as well as "other alterations," meaning any copy which is altered in any way is ...

It has nothing to do with subscriptions. See the licensing policy: https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Licensing_Policy_and_Guidelines PRO refers to "performing rights organization." The reason why these licenses can be allowed for members of such organizations is because the rights to use them c...

Publishing the file on a website (such as IMSLP) is distribution. In any case, if we have actual permission from the copyright holder, then it is legal — though we only allow non-free licenses such as this for specifically verified PRO members; otherwise, we would require permission to release under...

You have it backwards. It's not that I need to show that typesetting falls within a limited category of prohibited derivatives; you'd need to prove that there is permission granted to distribute a typeset. You're not allowed to do ANYTHING — even basic redistribution — except according to the permis...

CC ND licenses say: " Adapted Material means material subject to Copyright and Similar Rights that is derived from or based upon the Licensed Material and in which the Licensed Material is translated, altered, arranged, transformed, or otherwise modified in a manner requiring permission under t...

Thanks for the feedback. Can you provide any sort of example they could follow, if they wish, which would allow us to have their scores uploaded? They can release their typesets under CC-BY, CC-BY-SA or CC-Zero. However, considering that they are putting up these scores as a perusal in order to ren...

No, transcription from one system of notation to another following rules of equivalence does not involve any creativity.

Additionally, if you copy music from an edition but omit any of the more recently added creative work, only the authorship of the material you copied is relevant.

We will not allow uploads of such scores with "informal" non-commercial licenses. The website you link to does not grant any sort of permission to redistribute for any purpose at all. Submitting any source from this website is completely prohibited.

The entire point of the "no derivatives" licenses is that no derivatives are allowed. Users have NEVER been allowed to upload typesets of any type of ND work. This is part of why we don't allow those licenses in general.

That's because pieces are not people, and so will not be found in a category for people. The model of the category walker and IMSLP categorization in general is fundamentally flawed for many reasons. It will be replaced by a much more reasonable system which will become public at some point in the f...

Sure, we would welcome photographs, which could themselves be processed (most of the scans I makes are photographs, not flatbed scans).

As for recognition, you could be listed as the scanner.

The alias is from Wikidata, and can be edited there: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q231226

Do you mean when using Google to try to find pages on IMSLP?

The Weiner transcription has been uploaded. The others... I will have to look into. As you know, getting (and scanning) copies is not always so quick and easy.