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From: maa@ssc-bee.UUCP (Mark A Allyn)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.legal
Subject: query on music copyright
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Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 10:47:05 EST
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Relyzing that almost all of sheet music; the type of music that church
choirs and choruses use; is marked all over with copyright notices and
dire warnings of consequences of unauthorized copying, I have the 
following question. I have sung in many church choirs and community 
choruses in several parts of the country and many of them still continue
to use xeroxed copies of sheet music passed out to the members. As a singer,
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.

Thank in advance!

Mark A. Allyn
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