Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxa!wetcw From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Copying sheet music Message-ID: <956@pyuxa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 09:00:56 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxa.956 Posted: Wed Aug 15 09:00:56 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 02:26:44 EDT References: decwrl.3166 <471@syteka.UUCP>, <1307@cvl.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 11 You can trade music all you want, BUT, and this is a very big BUT, you can get into a lot of hot water if you copy and perform musical works. There has been a spate of law suits against church groups of late charging that they copied music and performed the music. Music writers are getting very sensative about their work. There have been more court cases lately than you can shake a stick at. I'm sure that if you were to write a song and get it published, you would want to be certain that you receive the royalties that were due. T. C. Wheeler