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Legality, or otherwise, of lending out print on demand scoresDate: July 1, 2009
Riffing off from the current discussion about when one can (or not) photocopy music:
Generally speaking, when the right to make photocopies is granted, one of the restrictions is that copies are made for the use only of the choir who have applied for that right - they cannot be sold, given away, hired, lent, or otherwise transferred to any other group.
What about 'print on demand' scores - which are, really, photocopies made by the publisher themselves? Should one assume the same restrictions apply? Or can they be treated as normally-published octavos?
I'm currently cataloguing the music collection of a choir I sing with, and facing the dilemma of whether a set of 'print on demand' scores should be listed as 'not for loan'.
Context statement: I am writing from Australia, and Australian law applies in my case, though I suspect American laws will be similar - and it's as much an ethical question as a legal question. Replies (3): Threaded | Chronological
Duane Toole on July 1, 2009 6:00
Scores from a publisher, "print on demand" or otherwise, can be treated as published music. (They can be loaned.)
Problems can arise, however, when the borrower may assume that the photocopied scores are not legal.
on July 2, 2009 5:38
What does one do when the distributer has delisted the score
from the catalog and/or doesnt even have it in an archive?
on July 2, 2009 6:31
You contact the publisher and obtain permission to make a specific number of copies. If they can't provide any copies, you then post a message in ChoralNet's borrowing requests venue (found in the Announcements category), asking colleagues to check their libraries to see if they can send you a legal copy from which to make permission-based reproductions.
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