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For publication on the WLSCM site, permissions from the owners of the sources are usually required. Similarly, for the posting of recorded performances permission must be obtained from the performers. We recommend, however, that prospective editors wait with requesting permissions until they have received confirmation of the acceptance of their edition.
The editors remain the owners of the copyright to their edition. However, they are responsible for any expenses involved in the preparation of their edition, including fees charged by institutions that own the sources.
All editions published by the Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music are made public under a Creative Commons license. Details about Creative Commons licenses may be found on their website. The default license used by the WLSCM is an "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs" license which "allows others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially."
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