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At Mozart Music Scores we are only able to publish works which are considered to be in the public domain without any copyright restrictions. Copyright laws vary from country to country but for general purposes Mozart Music Scores follow both the copyright laws of the U.S.A and Australia. According to American copyright laws, all works published before 1923 are deemed to be in the public domain, whereas all works written by composers who died before 1955 are considered to be in the public domain in Australia. The vast majority of scores available as Mozart Music Scores come under the first category of scores which were published before 1923 and are public domain in almost all countries. However, a small number of scores (for example a few selected works by Prokofiev) come under the second category of being in the public domain only in Australia. These scores all contain a warning in their product description about their potential copyright status in countries outside of Australia. It is your responsibility to know the copyright laws of your country and to make sure that you do not break them by downloading works from Mozart Music Scores which are copyright protected in your country. For more information on copyright and the public domain please see the following links:
U.S. Copyright office: http://www.copyright.gov/
Australian Copyright Council: http://www.copyright.org.au/
Public domain music: www.pdinfo.com
The UK Copyright Service http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/
European Union Copyright Information http://www.eucopyright.org/2008/04/copyright_eu_list/
Although Mozart Music Scores are newly created editions of music which is in the public domain, commercial copying, editing or redistribution of our scores is not permitted.