> > I was looking over some music for my percussion class this afternoon, and happened to see a small message at the bottom of the page which read, "NOTE TO CONDUCTOR AND PERFORMERS: The writers of this music are dependent upon its sale for their livelihood. Duplication by any means is not only illegal but it inhibits the creation of new music for your use." It seemed perfectly reasonable to me, and I could see that it was there for a reason. The only problem with it was that the composers whose livelihood it set out to protect, John Philip Sousa and William D. Revelli, are both quite dead.
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> I think that it is the arranger of the music that actually gets the money that you don't send when you photocopy the music. And he's probably not dead (although he may be very poor).

Yeah; I mean, that *is* pretty obvious. But still, it *does* say "writers", not "arrangers"... In middle school band, I saw that same disclaimer on an arrangement of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, and I thought much along the same lines as Liz.

-- codeman"the mad nitpicker"38