This may be anti-open, but here it goes. I think if you want to copyright a piece of music in the U.S.A, it needs to be in standard music notation. This requirement may be a Library of Congress requirement, but I am not sure. Anyway, if you want to publish and protect a MIDI piano-roll composed piece of music, you need some way of converting it to standard notation and printing it out. It doesn't get much easier than importing a MIDI file into noteedit! And for those of us who are not proficient with a MIDI keyboard, transcribing a piece of music from paper to noteedit and then exporting it to MIDI is a great starting point for learning music and songs. The best thing about noteedit is that you don't need Rosegarden+Lilypond to run it. -=cybersean3000=- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com