@asuffield said:@m0ffx said: fan-made sheet music [is] still copyright the owner of the copyright for the song.The music labels like to claim that a lot, but there's damn little legal basis for it, and it goes against hundreds of years of practice. It's probably also completely impractical; if we had followed that rule for the past hundred years, there wouldn't be much new music around. There just aren't that many original phrases that sound any good, and writing down music by ear is about as creative as making it up in the first place.Modern copyright law full stop goes against hundreds of years of practice. Writing down music by ear may be difficult, but it is not truly creative. And it can be considered fair use or otherwise legal to incorporate (sufficiently small) portions of other works into your own. Software provoked lively debate over whether there is a minimum length of a copyrighted work, given a few brilliant lines can be worth much more than thousands of banal ones.