Folk music scholar Lin Ku-fang warns that much would depend on the skill of the transcriber. He says, "Take for example transcribing folk songs. Someone could screw up a tune that had been sung for thousands of years, but, because its incorrect transcription would be protected intellectual property, no one could amend it. What then?"
民族音樂學者林谷芳提出警告說，說穿了，這還得看採譜、詮釋者的功力，「例如民歌的採譜，也有可能將原先傳唱千年的歌謠弄錯」，他說，如此已成為某人的「智慧財產」，別人無權修改，那又該怎麼辦？