Copyright and trademarks

Where the music comes from

Everything you can play in SightReader is one of three things:

• → Public-domain works, mostly composed before 1929, encoded by open projects such as PDMX and IMSLP.
• → Openly licensed editions, such as Creative Commons. Where a licence asks for attribution, we show it on the piece’s page.
• → Music we made: the grade exercises are composed for SightReader, and scales, arpeggios and note drills are generated by our own software.

The composer portraits on our homepage are public-domain images from Wikimedia Commons.

Exam boards and ABRSM

SightReader isn’t affiliated with, licensed by or endorsed by ABRSM, or by any other exam board. ABRSM is a trademark of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, and we use the name only to say which grade our material is aimed at.

We don’t reproduce exam board publications. In particular:

• — Our grade exercises are newly written to the publicly available syllabus requirements: the keys, time signatures, hand positions and lengths set for each grade. Real exams use unseen music given to you on the day, and ours isn’t it.
• — Our scales and arpeggios are generated from their musical definitions by our own software. Where we group them by grade, we follow which scales the published syllabus lists, not any scale book.
• — We don’t include exam pieces, set lists or past sight-reading tests from any board.

If anything on our site or in the app suggests otherwise, please tell us and we’ll correct it. Other product and company names we mention, including Trinity College London, RCM and AMEB, belong to their owners.

Music you upload

You can upload your own MusicXML to practise. You keep ownership of it, we never add a private upload to the public library without your permission, and by uploading you confirm you have the right to use the file. Our terms cover this in full.

Our own work

The SightReader name and logo, the app, the site, and the exercises we write are © Bret Cameron, trading as SightReader. Journalists and reviewers are welcome to use our logos and screenshots from the press kit.

Reporting a concern

If you think something in SightReader uses your work without permission, or a piece we list as public domain isn’t, email hello@sightreader.app with:

• — the work concerned, and a link to where it appears in SightReader;
• — who owns the rights, and your connection to them;
• — how we can reach you.

Every message is read by the founder. We take a piece down while we look into a credible claim, and we’ll tell you what we found.