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Everyone here on YC seems like wonderful and well intentioned people, but as a person who is working to make a living as a composer, no matter how generous or tempting it is to want to share a score I have to protect my interests first. I'm still working on having my works published and well known so there has to be some wisdom on my part in sharing a score online.
I don't have a problem with others learning from me by studying a score of mine. However, if everything that is unique to me as a composer was always studied and assimilated I would consider myself robbed in a way.
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I totally understand where you are coming from. One of my solutions is not to post a Finale score unless it is an excersize or something that I want to distribute for free. For most other works, posting a Midi file is a reasonable compromise, but articulations, grace notes, enharmonic spellings, words, and formatting in general etc. get lost in the translation. I can't really do a thourough critique/analysis of works submitted in this form. If you want to communicate those visually, I pdf the score and include a copyright notice. Then, if someone really wants to plagarize, they have to do it from scratch. I've already done this a few times and I think this will be my preferred method in the future - e.g., Post a link to and mp3 and provide a score in pdf format.
Certainly, this is a point of concern that deserves a lot of attention and further disscussion.