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To: Slapshot68
Well I hate to say it but if she’s downloading music and sharing, it’s illegal.

You don't even have to download it to run afoul of the law. Using your own brain, as in listening on the radio to a tune, committing it to memory and then playing it back on your own guitar or singing it---is illegal.

Recently I was ordered by ASCAP to either pay money to them or stop playing the tunes they represent, even though I did not download or record those tunes. I guess if you repeat what I just told you, you are breaking copyright law.

14 posted on 10/05/2007 10:45:38 AM PDT by Rudder
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To: Rudder

Are you playing for a paying audience?

If that is the case, I would think you have to pay royalties to someone.


23 posted on 10/05/2007 11:12:54 AM PDT by YankeeGirl
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