Ed Skinner wrote:
Can I make my own lead sheets to use when performing even though the chords, melody and lyrics are identical to those in a copyrighted work such as The Real Book or other published source? (This would be "for convenience" rather than having to carry around half a dozen books.)Strictly speaking you can't, but who's gonna check?
If you want to be absolutely safe, you can make your own copies, but keep the originals backstage so that you can produce them if anybody should actually ask.
Since you mentioned "The Real Book", it is a good example that the music publishing industry actually _can_ be pragmatic about coyprights if they really, really have to. That book circulated as illegal copies for decades (in Scandinavia at least) - completely ruining the jazz fake book market. Eventuelly the music publishers was forced to do something about it, so they published an official, watered down, edition. of it.
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> I often see other performers carrying their "book" to gigs. Those I've
> glanced at (by permission) appear to be hand-written, and appear to have no
> copyright information. I presume that, in many cases, these are special
> arrangements for that particular performer.
Wooaa! "Special arrangements" - that'd be even *more* illegal than plain reproductions! Surely *no* responsible musician would ever even think of doing anything like that! ;-)
Frank Nordberg
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