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- From: rhm@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Miller)
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:34:27 GMT
- Subject: Re: Request for Michael Card's music
- Message-ID: <107410239@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
- References: <11495@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
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- In rec.music.christian, anthony@cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Lee) writes:
-
- > In <1992Dec21.110220.819@ualr.edu> lindstrom@acs.harding.edu writes:
- >
- > >There is sheet music available for this. Not considering the
- > >legal aspects of your request (there may be no *legal aspect),
- > >MC's livleyhood is from sales and if you enjoy his music, you
- > >can show your support through purchasing the music.
- >
- > Sorry, I didn't say what I wanted the chords for... I just enjoy playing
- > the guitar and singing to myself so I only want the chords for my own
- > enterainment.
-
- That doesn't affect the legality (or ethics of) copyright law. On the other
- hand, two things about a song *cannot* be copyrighted: the *title*, and its
- *chord progression* (the latter because chord progressions apparently don't
- pass *legal* muster as the unique work of the author, unlike melody and lyric).
-
- [the above info is not from a legal source, but was offered by Jimmy and Carol
- Owens -- who should know --in a discussion of copyright law in a seminar on
- songwriting]
-
- So if someone wants to email you a song title and a sequence of guitar
- chords, he can do so with impunity.
-
- But you gotta figure out yourself how to align the chords w/ the words ;-)
-
- And BTW, I don't know the song, so I'm no help...
-
- Bob (life's too short -- get the book) Miller rhm@hpfirhm.fc.hp.com
-
- P.S. let's not start another copyright debate, OK?
-