Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

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On 12/09/15 13:24, David Kastrup wrote:
> Depends on the composer's date of death and whether you are transcribing
> editorial annotations as well or just sticking to the Urtext.  "we were
> given photocopy music sheet" does not exactly sound a lot more legal
> either, though I have indeed (from Hohner Verlag) received "original
> sheet music" that was a really lousy quality loose sheet photocopy with
> an "original music, do not photocopy" stamp mark placed on it.

Dunno how it works elsewhere, but in the UK, if you pay the copyright
fees you get a stamp that you can place, in red ink, a "property of X"
statement that says copyright has been paid on the photocopy so it's legit.

So a lot of our copies have that stamp for some other band in black :-)

Cheers,
Wol