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You should see the following when uploading on the classic interface:

What's the publication information — composer, librettist, translator, publisher/location? Even if it is only PD-US in 2026, there is a good chance that the copyright in the piece itself, but also especially the translation, was subject to renewal and not renewed. Many, many items published between ...

Just see...

https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Copyright_Made_Simple

and

https://imslp.org/wiki/Public_domain

You really mostly just need to know (1) when the author(s) died and/or (2) when the item was published.

Please don't waste time entering values manually. This is a temporary technical problem and will be fixed on the server end.

Yes; all composers who died over 50 years ago should be unlocked in due course. I'll unlock these two for you so you can add work pages and made PML-Asia uploads.

Assignments aren't new copyrights; they're just transfers of the original copyright.

I'm pleased to inform you that Petrucci Music Library Asia (PML-Asia), based in Taiwan, has launched, and that its listings are now integrated into IMSLP. Taiwanese copyright law is now covered on the public domain page . Much like PML-US, PML-Asia should only be used for files that cannot go on the...

This is wrongheaded. There should be only one version of any file under ordinary circumstances. It should be a good, clean scan. The page sizes should be consistent and match the medium for which the score was designed, with margins that make sense. (The pages can be scaled and WILL be scaled by any...

We don't delete files due to authors requesting to have them removed because they regret submitting them and want to revoke a license. We have the right and ability to remove files if they are useless garbage. There is a difference.

Copyright assignment (i.e., transfer of copyright) is not relevant to determining status.

The disambiguation tag can use any string. In a case like this, the category name should be something like, instead of Bach, Johann Christoph , Bach, Johann Christoph @Ohrdruf^ or similar. The @ and ^ mark the disambiguation tag. This is entered in LinkPerson templates as value 5 (e.g., {{LinkDed|Jo...

link fixed

Even if first published in 1973, the piece itself cannot be copyrighted in the United States unless that publication was made under the authority of Mercadante's heirs. Of course, the piece may have been published earlier (per the legal definition of publication). I don't know off the top of my head...

Died 1961, per Royal College of Music obituary. Also found death record. Go ahead and add.

They should be separate files, one file corresponding to each physical part, in the standard order: https://imslp.org/wiki/Template:Standar ... tral_Order