I recently visited the Retail Print Music Dealers Association website and made my way over to the copyright info page, where they summarize US copyright law in simple terms.  I wanted to compare these somewhat restrictive Sheet Music Rights vs. the expansive rights you automatically get as an Art of Sound Music customer.

Ability to Make Copies

In addition, we give free Part Transportation service and free Lost Part Replacement service.  For more details visit our Parts Policy page.

Part Transposition

You may manually transpose parts to accommodate players with instruments in different keys than that supplied using the parts we’ve provided.  Alternatively, we can transpose the part for you free of charge for scores we have in music notation format and that are still active in our catalog at the time of your request.

Lost Part Replacement

If you’ve lost a part and don’t have a PDF and/or photocopy backup, we can replace the lost part free of charge if that score is still active in our catalog at the time of your request.  The replacement part will be emailed to you.

Summary

It is our intent to treat customers as trusted partners, not criminals.  For this reason, copying of scores and parts are allowed for your own group.  We think that the basic law is too restrictive and puts music directors in an unnecessarily awkward position.