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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
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Subject: Re: query on music copyright
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Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 00:48:41 EST
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In article <462@ssc-bee.UUCP>, maa@ssc-bee.UUCP (Mark A Allyn) writes:
> I occasionally get music that is blatently marked 'Copying Prohibited' all
> over it and yet is a xeroxed copy. The question is is can I as a choir member
> get into trouble or the group as a whole or what? And why is it still going
> on despite the warnings? Obviously it seems that whatever enforcement there
> is must be a joke otherwise I would think that these varous churches and 
> choruses would not be doing it. If I were a composer, I frandkly would be
> very dissapointed.
	
		Bars that play live music have to pay the song's
authors royalities.  Using an authors  copyright work without
paying the author is stealing.  Even if it is in a church.
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