Terms of use for the digital collection

Unless otherwise stated, texts, sheet music and images in the HMTM Digital Collection are licensed under the Open Access-compliant Creative Commons licence CC BY. You may reproduce and redistribute this content, modify the material for any purpose and build upon it, provided that you cite the Munich University of Music and Theatre Munich as the source. Items still protected by copyright are, provided the relevant licence is available, only available for private use by members of the university within the university network.

The retro digitised recordings of vinyl records and CDs consist of classical music recordings that are no longer protected under German/European copyright law. This applies to works whose authors have been deceased for more than 70 years and whose recordings were first recorded and published before 1 January 1963. Both the original recordings and the digitised versions of these compositions made available here are in the public domain (CC0) in Germany/the EU.

Digital audio and video recordings of HMTM concert performances may be downloaded for private, non-commercial purposes. For any public use, permission must be obtained from HMTM and, where applicable, from other rights holders (GEMA, the publisher, VG Musikedition, etc.). The publication of copyright-protected works takes place under a fixed-term licence agreement. Copyright law does not guarantee permanent availability for every work.

The metadata is usually supplemented by a permalink, known as a URN (Uniform Resource Name). Please use this permalink when publishing content to ensure it remains accessible in the long term.

Example:
Scheuermann, August: A History of Music Literature. In: Annual Report of the Royal Music School in Munich. 2.1875/76, [Appendix], pp. 3–4. urn:nbn:de:bvb:m29-0000000019, [Last accessed: 06/04/2011]