From the article: This seems surprising because there's a lot of music on MuseScore that isn't legal. I guess that's going to be cleaned up somehow? It's happened before:
From the article:
Muse Group, the Limassol, Cyprus-based company which owns music and audio products such as MuseScore.com, the MuseScore music notation application, StaffPad, Ultimate Guitar, and Audacity, has acquired Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Hal Leonard, the largest publisher of sheet music and educational books.
This seems surprising because there's a lot of music on MuseScore that isn't legal. I guess that's going to be cleaned up somehow?
It's happened before:
Hal Leonard also has its Digital Books, cloud-based publications in a proprietary streaming e-book format, including the famous “The Real Book” series. (That series, incidentally, originated as lead sheet transcriptions that were notoriously unlicensed until 2004, when Hal Leonard obtained the rights to most of the songs and published the books legally — a story not unlike that of Ultimate Guitar’s experience with guitar tablature.)
The synergy of owning companies that teach, compose, and encourage playing of sheet music is really interesting. Obviously there's the financial benefit of hooking young people into an ecosystem...
The synergy of owning companies that teach, compose, and encourage playing of sheet music is really interesting.
Obviously there's the financial benefit of hooking young people into an ecosystem (not literally, musescore and audacity are open source), but from watching Tantacrul/Martin Keary (new lead designer and youtuber), I think there is a genuine love of music and wanting to share it behind many people working there.
From the article:
This seems surprising because there's a lot of music on MuseScore that isn't legal. I guess that's going to be cleaned up somehow?
It's happened before:
The synergy of owning companies that teach, compose, and encourage playing of sheet music is really interesting.
Obviously there's the financial benefit of hooking young people into an ecosystem (not literally, musescore and audacity are open source), but from watching Tantacrul/Martin Keary (new lead designer and youtuber), I think there is a genuine love of music and wanting to share it behind many people working there.
Godspeed.