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From: j08@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Serge Wallagh)
Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.makers
Subject: rights on Songfiles
Keywords: copyrights on musicfiles
Message-ID: <1028@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
Date: 26 Oct 90 15:28:11 GMT
Sender: Wallagh@nikhef.nl (Serge Wallagh)
Reply-To: j08@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Serge Wallagh)
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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I've been collecting music songfiles, which can be played by a midi-interface
on a keyboard.
Those songfiles were all in the public domain.
This raises a question:
Am I allowed to sequence a song, and then distribute this sequence?
Shouldn't I (or somebody else) be paying copyrights to the composers of
the songs?
 
So to summurize: what is the legal status of a songfile (=sequences song)?
 
			Serge Wallagh