[Harp-L] Re: fake book sale

["ndavid.coulson@xxxxxxxxx" <ndavid.coulson@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know if it's a bootleg site or not, but your concerns do seem  
to be addressed on the Wikifonia FAQ page:

<<Wikifonia is a website where you can find lead sheets. They are all  
created and revised by the Wikifonia community. From each sheet you  
find on Wikifonia, you can download a high quality pdf file. You can  
use the sheets for personal use only.
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Why Wikifonia?
Wikifonia aims to supply sheet music in a different way. Unlike other  
sheet music websites, it offers
Improved musical and visual quality. Numerous websites offer sheet  
music of poor quality: text files, incomplete sheets, no notes, etc.  
For musical quality, Wikifonia relies on you. Once registered, you  
can easily alter erroneous or incomplete sheets, through our simple  
and transparent collaboration scheme. As for visual quality,  
Wikifonia uses a vector-based rendering process to generate your  
sheet. This implies high-quality pdf's, and no pixels (check out the  
zoom!). Sheets, just like you want them to be.
A legal framework. A lot of sites are now being closed because they  
don't provide remuneration for the copyright owners. In a way, sheet  
music you downloaded or published on these sites is endangered, and  
might be off-line soon. Through a contract with copyright holders,  
Wikifonia commits herself to pay a fixed amount per sheet per month,  
so as to ensure that the original artists get their share. This legal  
framework we consider necessary for the durability of our commitment:  
collaborating on sheets with you.>>

On May 2, 2013, at 2:06 PM, philharpn@xxxxxxx wrote:

> I looked at this site. Looks like it's a bootleg site. If Hal  
> Leonard is selling songs in a fake book for pennies each, I imagine  
> that owners of the songs (publishers - composers) are only getting  
> a fraction of that.  (plus: wholesale is half the list price; so do  
> the math)
>
> I hate to piss on your parade. But l would rather buy a legit copy  
> of a song than steal off the internet.
>
> I also realize that Mickey Mouse has locked up copyrights for the  
> next 100 years -- but just because I object to the price doesn't  
> give me the right to shoplift it.
>
> There was a time when fake books were all bootlegged. Now most are  
> legit.
>
>
>
> Phil Lloyd
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> A free internet resource alternative to fake books is Wikifonia.org  
> which has thousands of lead sheets of popular songs, all of which  
> can be transposed into the various keys and printed out in several  
> different formats: http://www.wikifonia.org/
>
> David
>
> On May 2, 2013, at 10:15 AM, harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > fake book sale