The business model Jean quoted looks like making money with
subscriptions with the publication of scores that are otherwise free,
without adding any value. There are many of them.
From a user's (director, ensemble) perspective: Why should I be a
paying member of musicalion.com if I find the scores on cpdl.org?
From a publisher's perspective: Why publishing on a second platform
when already publishing on a very established (cpdl.org) one? Do you
really want to do the double work without any benefit on your side?
To me the offer has several smells
* You got the request unsolicitedly. Let's assume they write to all
cpdl.org publishers and make use of any other sources of email addresses...
* On the German front page they write "Staatlich anerkannte Bibliothek"
(state-approved library) as a sub-heading. What state? If you hover that
link you get information about the subscription service, but not about
some accreditation or alike.
my 2 cents ;-)
Stephan
Am 06.03.2023 um 17:56 schrieb Jean Abou Samra:
Le lundi 06 mars 2023 à 10:43 -0600, Guy Stalnaker a écrit :
Hello everyone,
Curious if anyone on this list, especially in Germany, has knowledge
or experience with musicalion.com. I just received an unsolicited
email from them about my choral works on Choral Public Domain Library
(cpdl.org) asking me to also put my work in their system. They /seem/
legit, but in this day and age where "seems" can obscure a cloud of
issues, I though I'd ask this community first, knowing that many of
you have far more experience than I have with publishing music at all
levels.
I have exactly zero experience with professional music publishing, but
I recommend that you read their terms and conditions.
https://www.musicalion.com/general/Docs/en_EN/terms.pdf
At a glance, article 5:
The right to use the collection of all sheet music and recordings
from Musicalion.com is limited to the period of membership. After
terminating membership, the user must destroy all Musicalion.com data
files and printouts which are still in the user's possession. In the
event that a user provided an ensemble with sheet music from
Musicalion.com, then the user is responsible to ensure the
destruction of these copies
makes me think this is not a service I would be particularly happy to
use, personally.
