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There is a very interesting, tough unfortunately and ironically quite expensive, book on the history of fake books: https://www.amazon.com/Story-Fake-Books-Boot

There is a very interesting, tough unfortunately and ironically quite expensive, book on the history of fake books: https://www.amazon.com/Story-Fake-Books-Bootlegging-Musicians/dp/0810857278 https://www.amazon.com/Story-Fake-Books-Bootlegging-Musician... There has been considerable litigation around this subject, and IP questions can get really complex. E.g. if you're using a Real Book version of "Donna Lee" you got through a P2P site: * You're using sheet music pirated from the authors of the real book… * Who were transcribing the song without paying royalties to the rights holders (presumably Charlie Parker's estate)… * Who were re-using the harmony of "Indiana" (and I'm not sure whether the legality of that has been conclusively established).

colechristensen 4y ago
And this is an argument where there shouldn’t be intellectual property at all in these situations. Oral traditions and sharing music in a similar manner is the oldest tradition in human civilization, one of the things that makes us human. Ok an exact recording of a pop song or rights to sell a song you didn’t write on a record… those might be considerable… but there needs to be a lot of room for music to be created and shared without whatever generational lock on ownership exists now.