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Sheet Music Rip Off

3/3/2020

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Several days ago I discovered that 28 pieces of mine had somehow been taken from Sheet Music Plus and were being distributed (in violation of Copyright law) by two music sites. The sites are topmusicsheet.com and musicsheets.org. I sent DMCA Take Down Notices and, happily, both sites removed my music from their sites.

Here is a message that I received from Sheet Music Plus after I wrote to them about the situation:

Hello,
Hal Leonard Legal is aware of this issue with this website. They seem to have only have the sample pages, not your full pdf.
For now, I recommend submitting a DMCA notice
Please submit it to the website owner, the website hosting company (If you know it) and CC us.


Based on this experience, it is prudent for composers to periodically do an internet search on several of their music titles and see what comes up. That is how I discovered that my music was at those two sites.
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RT
9/15/2020 12:41:16 pm

Thank you. I had the same problem. It looks like they only had the preview to lure people into registering their details and credit card on some fake looking page, looks like phishing.

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