Copyright and Legal Information

Terms and Conditions:

Although some of our source music is public domain, mfiles retains various copyrights in relation to the material. All arrangements in all formats are the copyright of Jim Paterson, as is the physical format of all the music files (online or download), whether this is as data or sound sequences or the graphical layout of sheet music. All music files and other content on this site are for personal use only. However the material may be used for non-commercial purposes (e.g. schools or personal web-sites) on the understanding that you provide a credit or link such as "music from www.mfiles.co.uk". Please ask permission first by emailing mfiles content, describing the intended purpose for the music and quoting your website URL were relevant.

Our music and other material must never be redistributed without permission, either as is or adapted in any way. With the exception of buttons and banners belonging to their respective copyright holders, all the text, graphics and web pages in the mfiles site are also subject to the same conditions except where otherwise indicated.

mfiles can license material for use in other circumstances, e.g. for computer games, web-sites, audio-visual presentations, telephone on-hold systems, film, TV, video, commercials, restaurants, shops, radio, etc. The material can be supplied in a variety of different forms including CD-quality audio files (sent electronically or on CD) and high-resolution printouts in a variety of formats for graphical uses such as posters. Please email mfiles licensing with details of your requirements.

Privacy Policy:

Any personal information provided to mfiles (e.g. email addresses, postal addresses or other details) is always treated in the strictest confidence, stored securely and never shared with other companies or individuals.

In connection with our "Classical Composers Poster", personal details are collected and stored securely by "Carissimi Publications" who will only use your details to process your order.

Please note that mfiles does not use cookies to monitor visitors. In order to cover our hosting and support costs, mfiles uses a variety of advertisers, including Google Adwords and 3rd parties who may use "cookies" to track visitors in order to measure and optimise advert performance. No personal information (such as names, addresses, email addresses or telephone numbers) are included in this tracking process.

Music and Information Sources:

mfiles will only publish music when it has the legal right to do so. Either the composer(s) of the music has been dead for 70 years or more, in which case the music passes into the public domain (according to the more stringent European legislation), or mfiles has permission from the copyright holder to publish the music.

mfiles uses a wide variety of sources (too numerous to mention here) for the information it publishes about music and composers, including reference books, magazines, television, films, radio, sheet music, records, CDs and other web-sites. In all cases the original material is used as a source of information rather than text. Information is believed to be correct but no guarantee is made on accuracy. Please notify us of any inaccuracies.

Sibelius and Scorch and various other words are trademarks of Sibelius Software. We will use these terms freely throughout the mfiles site. Adobe, Acrobat and Reader are trademarks of Adobe Systems whose products support the "PDF" format. Various other trademarks belonging to other companies may also be used without formal acknowledgement.