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There is no reason why the swapping of individually created tunes would be illegal, right?




Depends on what you mean by "individually created tunes". If you are referring to the use of BIAB or RB to recreate tunes that are still under copyright protection, then you can create them all day long... but I'm not so sure it is legal to trade them (even for free).

There was recently a big stir on the YAHOO BIAB site, and all the archives containing melodies were removed. It is my understanding that what remains is just chords (which can't be protected by copyright)

The issue of legality is separate from the issue of practicality. Whether or not anyone would take the time to prosecute individuals trading files remains unknown until it happens. (remember the small-time prosecutions when the peer to peer wars were in full swing?)

But I would hate to implicate PGMusic in any way by making them even passively associated with an activity that could cause legal problems.