Copyright is a problem with some Midi files on the Net. It applies to any
piece of music whose composer has not been dead for at least 70 years. If you
live in the US and are worried about the legality of a piece, you can check the
mind-boggling detail of American copyright law at the Legal Information
Institute’s page, http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/.
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