If the sheet music is 30 years old and out of print and not available anywhere and made in another country and falling apart and not in very good condition why is it that I cannot go to an office store and make a copy?
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Mystybunny
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Because it has a copyright mark on it.
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It's stupid (in my opinion) but unfortunately it is copywrite infringment.
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I would just do it. As long as you're not going to sell it or something.
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I ain't gonna rat on you, so go ahead.
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you can make a copy. it isnt the copy shops responsibility to judge what you do with the copies or what you copy. sometimes they think they can control what is copied on their machines. maybe your printer is also a copy machine. or maybe you have access to a scanner. or you could take digital pictures of it and print them on your printer. you can take a book and copy it on a copy machine, page by page. if you try and sell it then it is copyright infringement. you should tell your copy shop manager that you arent going to sell the music. you just want a playable copy.
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You actually might be able to. The work is copyrighted, which makes reproducing the work illegal. And this does not fit into the Fair Use exception (although it does fit within the Library exception). However, there is a de minimis exception which this might fit into. So long as you are making the copy for personal use, you own a copy of the original, and it is no longer available, this use would likely be labeled by several judges as de minimis. However, like fair use, the determination as to whether something is de minimis needs to be determined on a case by case basis.
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