Disclaimer & Directory

2022-06-03

Table of Content

Disclaimer
URL Naming Convention
Directory

Anime（アニメ）
Media Mix（メディア・フランチャイズ）
Doujin（同人）
VOCALOID（ボーカロイド）
C-Pop
- JJ Lin
- Other

Disclaimer

It has been several years since I started transcribing my favorite music, making sheet music and sharing them on the internet. It is so much pleasure to see others appreciate my favorite music when they play the music by themselves using my sheet music! However, I did not consider about the value of my scores (commercially) at that time. Unfortunately, some websites saw that. So, after I uploaded tons of sheet music on their website when they promised “free-to-download”, a few years later, their website suddenly changed! All of them began to sell my sheet music which ought to be shared free-of-charge. Of course, they made some money and people started to blame me selling sheet music though I earned nothing. What is worse, after I protested vehemently against them, those websites banned me and ignored my request to withdraw all my uploads! I cannot trust these website anymore, they can be such robbers because my transcriptions are potentially illegal without permission from the original composers. In fact, I cannot legally say the sheet music is completely OWNED BY ME, because of the “copyright”, and that gave me difficulties to initiate a lawsuit against those website in mainland China (and the legal system in mainland China does not protect my right, so desperate.)

Therefore, at the end of 2020, I started thinking to build my own website so that both my audience from mainland China and the rest of the world can have access to my sheet music directly. Without frustrations from these issues, I can finally return to my initial purpose of making the transcriptions! The website is built based on Hexo (https://hexo.io/) that powered by Node.js. I hardly had any experience in coding, so it took me so long to work on it by only googling for solutions, and I posted the details of website setup on Bilibili (in Chinese): https://www.bilibili.com/read/readlist/rl382502

Because I gain almost no support from anywhere (if the tens of dollars revenues per month from youtube don’t count), and I don’t find a job yet, so the process is super slow. To be realistic, it is so hard to do such a project without any external funding, but I need to emphasize that, all my works are created for study purposes so I never ask for money. I will appreciate if you can add one more view for my youtube videos, or mention me when you use my recordings as your BGM, or upload your performance that uses my sheet music. For the terms of use, I will try to adapt Terms of Use for the BBC’s digital services, which is simple and easy to understand. Please obey the followings rules:

Read the terms before using my content. Whenever you use my content you agree to these terms.
If you don’t stick to these terms then I will try my best to suspend or terminate your use of my content.
What’s all this about ‘content’? Only the sheet music and the audio/videos that created by me, not including the images or other content. Besides, I did not obtain a permission from original artists for transcription. To show my respect, if some of them would like to claim their copyright, this disclaimer should be suspended.
Terms for using my content. A few rules to stop you (and me) getting in trouble.

a) Don’t mess with my content, which means following:
- Removing or altering my name, and copyright notices from the content (if there are any);
b) Don’t use my content for harmful or offensive purposes
c) Don’t make it look like my content costs money
- If you put our content on a site that charges for content, you have to say it is free-to-view.
f) Don’t associate our content with advertising or sponsorship. That means you can’t:
- Put any other content between the link to my content and the content itself. So no ads or short videos people have to sit through
- Put ads next to or over it
- Put ads related to their subject alongside my content
- Add extra content that means you’d earn money from our content.
g) Don’t be misleading about where my content came from
- You can’t remove or alter the copyright notice, or imply that someone else made it.
h) Don’t pretend to be “SwZap”

What you have to do

Use the latest version of the content and, where we have it, - don’t remove any tagging or tracking
Make sure it’s displayed accurately
Add a credit (if it doesn’t already have one)

URL Naming Convention

Anime: Genre+Year+Season+Number+Functionality(+Number)+Instruments/Voicings

Movie/TV Drama/Dojin: Genre+Title+Functionality(+Number)+Instruments/Voicings

C-pop, J-pop, Heavy Metal Music, Latin Music, etc.: Genre+Original Artist (Performer&Composer)(+Album/Single Number, Track Number)+Instruments/Voicings

Genre:

A = “Anime/Media Mix”, D = “Dojin”, V = “Vocaloid”, C = “C-pop”, J = “J-pop”, M = “Movie”, T = “TV Drama”, H = “Heavy Metal Music”, L = “Latin Music”
Related Media Work:

Anime: year(XX)+season(S=Spring, U=Summer, F=Fall, W=Winter)+number(1-9). Example: “Brynhildr in the Darkness” is the fist anime in spring 2014 that I had a transcription for its BGM, then the code is “14S1”.

Movie/TV Drama: whole title in English.

Dojin: Related media work title in 5 letters, e. g. Touhou Project -> THP.

C-pop, J-pop, Heavy Metal Music, Latin Music, etc.: [Empty]
Original Artist (Performer&Composer):

Anime/Movie/TV Drama: [Empty]

C-pop, J-pop, Heavy Metal Music, Latin Music, etc.: Artist+Number. If performer is the composer, just write it. Otherwise, put whichever is more famous. If the name is short, put full name (e. g. AKB48, JJ-Lin), otherwise only put the initials (Hey!Say!JUMP -> HSJ).
C-pop, J-pop, Heavy Metal Music, Latin Music, etc.: For those with multiple musical works, use the album number / single number to distinguish. For songs in the same album/single, add the track number.
Functionality

Anime/Movie/TV Drama: b = “BGM”, o = “Openning (Song)”, e = “Ending (Song)”, i = “Insert Song”, c = “Character Song”. Add number if there are more than one.

C-pop, J-pop, Heavy Metal Music, Latin Music, etc.: [Empty]
Instruments/Voicings:

[Empty] = “Sheet Music for Piano Solo”, V = “Sheet Music for Piano Accompanying with Vocal”, I = “Sheet Music for Piano Accompanying One Other Musical Instrument”, E = “Sheet Music for Ensemble (More than 2 Voices)”