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New But, you bought the music to study/practice. No?
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
New Its not for sale
you have to learn popular songs off the radio by ear - maybe grabbing a cassette. By the time they consider publishing them (if at all), they are old news and off the charts.

Public performance, BTW is compensated at the venue level by ASCAP or BMI memberships.

The venue owners are expected (threatened) to join one of these publishing orgs and their membership money is distributed among the songwriters. So its not like they're not getting paid at all. They just want another income stream I think.

I remain adamant that only paid performances are worthy of compensation and use of charts for study and personal pleasure ought to be free. Performances include mechanical performances (playing a CD) in a place of business (like a coffee house).

Good artists copy, great artists steal. All artists are outlaws it seems. Well - so be it.



"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect"   --Mark Twain

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."   --Albert Einstein

"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses."   --George W. Bush
New Historical accident
Once Upon a Time, entertainment was done on a much smaller scale than we're used to. Like one house at a time. The only way to recover money from the people doing this was to get it when they bought the sheet music.

Today, it's the opposite. You're much more likely to get your entertainment via recorded music, or at a public venue. Either of which already gets your money for the "artist". (Chyeah, you mean for the label.)

So yes, they're shooting themselves in the foot for a short term gain.
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     MPA says sharing tablature for songs is stealing - (tuberculosis) - (12)
         That's how it started - (drewk) - (4)
             I still have some sheet music... - (Meerkat)
             Yeah, but there's very little money in it now - (tuberculosis) - (2)
                 these people are missing the boat, if you cant see the music - (boxley) - (1)
                     No less than he does now - (jake123)
         SO, I guess I can't admin any systems then... - (folkert)
         It is a derivative work - (ben_tilly) - (5)
             So you might as well outlaw the instruction of music - (tuberculosis) - (4)
                 But, you bought the music to study/practice. No? -NT - (jbrabeck) - (2)
                     Its not for sale - (tuberculosis) - (1)
                         Historical accident - (drewk)
                 You are grotesquely exaggerating. - (ben_tilly)

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