Sharing music notation over the web Aug19 '06

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# (1 of 1): Jennifer Grucza » jennifergrucza.com

2 days, 2 hours after the fact. (Mon 21 Aug 2006, 2:56 PM CST)

By sharing this notation online, they’re basically publishing an arrangement of copyrighted music without paying the royalties that the copyright owner is entitled to. If it were just a couple of chords for learning purposes, that wouldn’t be a problem, I think, but a whole song, written down and notated, would basically be cheating the songwriter. Instead of going out and buying legal arrangements, people could then download them for free.

Mary had a Little Lamb is public domain and out of copyright, so publishing sheet music for that is not a problem (provided you are doing the notation yourself and not scanning a copyrighted edition).

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