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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
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Subject: Re: query on music copyright
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Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 22:39:42 EST
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In article <4857@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UUCP writes:


>> I myself perform music in church quite frequently, and whenever possible I
>> try to use originals instead of photocopies.  But if I already own a copy
>> and I photocopy it to make page-turning easier or some other reason, do you
>> think it's proper to prosecute me for it?

>That's really up to the copyright holder.  Suppose you copy a work
>to make page-turning easier and then you sell the copies afterwards?
>Remember that the copyright holder can't stop you from selling the
>copies once you've made them, but can stop you from making them.

Not so.  THe making of copies *for yourself only* to reformat, mark up, or
whatever, are almost certainly "fair use".  (I say almost certainly because
fair use is a legal nebulosity whose exact nature is essentially determined
by the courts.)

C. Wingate