[Harp-L] Re: fake book sale

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On May 2, 2013, at 2:36 PM, harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx 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-----
From: ndavid.coulson <ndavid.coulson@xxxxxxxxx>
To: harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>; philharpn <philharpn@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, May 2, 2013 1:52 pm
Subject: Re: fake book sale


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