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Where to find downloadable anime music scores?

I'm also aware of cover bands and other "derivative work" that apparently have never gotten into any sort of legal trouble for their work.

The full story on Happy Birthday- http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.htm

Scans of score books is definately copyright infringement, same as copying a book. MIDIs, tabs, and other fan work are also illegal, but usually not gone after unless money is changing hands. There are tons of scorebooks for bands, for piano, for whatever, and just because it might not have been arranged or transcribed by the composer/artist doesn't mean that they still aren't getting paid for composing

Midi's illegal? That just sounds out of hand. If something is transcribed, then written out on score, is that really so wrong? I hate todays legal economy. =/

Midi's illegal? That just sounds out of hand. If something is transcribed, then written out on score, is that really so wrong? I hate todays legal economy. =/

A way of expressing one's self, through preformance of music, is limited by law. Absurd. =/

wonder how things like American Idol work. =P

Composers and orchestrators have to make their living somehow, and one of those ways is through sheet music.

Which is one of the reasons that classical CDs are so cheap, you are paying for the preformance and the media not what was played.

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Midi's illegal? That just sounds out of hand. If something is transcribed, then written out on score, is that really so wrong? I hate todays legal economy. =/ A way of expressing one's self, through preformance of music, is limited by law. Absurd. =/

MIDIs are only illegal if they're arrangements of other people's work, it's not the format, just like with MP3, it's the CONTENT. You aren't limited in how you express yourself through music, as long as it's YOUR music. Composers and orchestrators have to make their living somehow, and one of those ways is through sheet music.

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wonder how things like American Idol work. =P

The same way, they get permission and pay royalty fees

was more so thinking of the first inital auditions (at the beginning of the season).

For instance, the absolute bastardization of "Like a Virgin" on nationwide TV, is that done for free, illegally? (by the idiot who does so).

Where do you get all those sheet music?
I do not "get" sheet music. I make them. I transcribe/arrange, which means I listen to a recording of a song and write down what I hear.

In the long run I'm sure its illegal at some level, however, I really don't think the copyright holders would really care too much....I think it is comparable to doujins in this case

Since we're on the subject, anyone know where I can find Yasunori Mitsuda guitar tabs? All I can find are some Chrono Cross ones, and I'd like some Chrono Trigger, and maybe some Xenogears, and pretty much all the songs that featured guitars on his Time and Space cd. >.>

C_Brightshadow:Classical music, both CDs and sheet music is expensive. If you want a classical CD from a good musician (by good I mean the recordings that will last for a long time, which are the only ones that people should buy) you have to pay... oh... 18 dollars. And to get good sheet music that won't fall apart in two months you have to spend... oh... twenty dollars for a 50 page booklet. So, there's more going on here than just copyright laws.

Yes,indeed it is true....although close to impossible to find the original,good quality ones are not cheap.After further research, i found out as well,that in any case,rearranging is not illegal as well from my uncle's law journals.

t if someone were to copy a music and distribute it using the original composers name?I mean,not for selling sake, but just for families,friends,or for their own enjoyment?

anyone is able to listen and rearrange,shouldn't they be given credit to present their work?Even if it is exactly the same, the composition is done 100% on their own,right?

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