>>1. Many copyrighted works are out of print. The copyright is still in effect.
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>>2. To Xerox a copy or copies for a school or anyone else of an existing piece of copyrighted work is illegal.
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>>3. Many wonderful works cannot legally be preformed due to copyrights.
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>>Reality can be a sour note! :)
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>>Tom
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>The UK sheet music copyright laws, at least as far as schools are concerned, are somewhat strange.
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>It is illegal to photocopy, scan, transcribe a piece of music onto a computer, but it is not illegal to make a hand-written copy of the music & photocopy that for class use.

Len;

That is interesting! Thank you for the information.

Tom