| From: Jeffrey Snider To: VOCALIST <vocalist> Subject: Re: Copying music for auditions Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Now I don't want to get anything started, but...
I believe the SPIRIT of the law is that one should not photocopy music to avoid purchase. i.e. It is illegal to copy a song from a book in the library, just because you don't want to go to the store and buy it!
I would think that there is a certain amount of "good faith" involved. If, in good faith, you have purchased the music, and, rather than risk losing a substantial investment in the mail, you send a photocopy of same ahead to an accompanist in another city, I would think you would be OK.
Mind you, no case like this has made it to the courts, to my knowledge, and NOBODY (certainly not me!) wants to be the "test case."
Let me add that Classical Vocal Reprints publishes music that is "Out of Print". Glendower Jones (who IS the company) will even print something for you that is not in his catalog, if he can. (He did that for me for a high school student I had who needed a "legit" copy of a Sidney Homer song for contest.)
I'll post the URL to his website.
Jeffrey Snider, DMA Chair, Division of Vocal Studies College of Music University of North Texas Denton, TX USA ................................................................................. iWon.com http://www.iwon.com why wouldn't you? .................................................................................
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