On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 15:53, Henning Makholm wrote: > I don't think there is a single answer to this which holds in > general. Many popular tunes work with chord sequences that are so > generic and nondescript that it would be ridiculous to claim a > copyright on them. For example, something such as
You're right on this part. Since the chords are associated with the song name, this is a copyright violation. If the chords were provided without reference to the song, they could be considered generic ... > Somewhere in between those two examples there is a line, with a wide > and fuzzy grey area around it. That's why I choose to not provide the examples in the debian package. > For the purpose of providing examples, it would be prudent to stick to > very generic changes, and music that has passed into the public domain. Thanks for this answer, I'll forward upstream. Raphael
