From: Jeffrey Snider
To: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Subject: Re: Copying music for auditions
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Now I don't want to get anything started, but...

I believe the SPIRIT of the law is that one should not photocopy music to
avoid purchase. i.e. It is illegal to copy a song from a book in the
library, just because you don't want to go to the store and buy it!

I would think that there is a certain amount of "good faith" involved. If,
in good faith, you have purchased the music, and, rather than risk losing a
substantial investment in the mail, you send a photocopy of same ahead to an
accompanist in another city, I would think you would be OK.

Mind you, no case like this has made it to the courts, to my knowledge, and
NOBODY (certainly not me!) wants to be the "test case."

Let me add that Classical Vocal Reprints publishes music that is "Out of
Print". Glendower Jones (who IS the company) will even print something for
you that is not in his catalog, if he can. (He did that for me for a high
school student I had who needed a "legit" copy of a Sidney Homer song for
contest.)

I'll post the URL to his website.

Jeffrey Snider, DMA
Chair, Division of Vocal Studies
College of Music
University of North Texas
Denton, TX USA
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