I'm 68 years old and an IBM mainframe programmer using COBOL. Now retired.
I've been using Lilypond since v1.12. One of the reason I choose lilypond because it supports UTF-8 for lyrics. Now I am gladly using V2.18.2 and V2.19.26.
I sing in a choir. Time and time, we were given photocopy music sheet and they are hard to read. I started transcribe the photocopy music sheet by using lilypond for my own use. Few months thereafter, choir member ask for printed copy of lilypond generated pdf. I am greatly obliged.
Few months ago copyright subject come up. I bought a song book contains 10 STAB choir songs. I transcribe one of them and use for whole choir. Is this legal?
Immanuel,
Ming.