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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000007.txt from 2004/04
From: Jennifer I.Paull <info@-----.com>
Subj: [DR-L] Re: Libel Policy? or THEFT!
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 06:44:27 -0500
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On Friday, April 2, 2004, at 07:55 am, Bear Woodson wrote:
> You've been Brainwashed by
> the Popular Music Industry. Blame them, not
> me. I've told you the truth.
>
Dear Bear,
The hardest job in the world is to be a composer. Another is
to be an honest musician in a world that today, has very little
to do with the profession I knew and loved in which "respect"
played a major role.
I am not referring to anything/anyone from your mail the
above statement, just a general lack of standards.
I have spent 40 years fighting alone to make an instrument
keep its bell joint above the water - just me, no grants, no
subsidies. When I started, although some baroque music
existed, it was virtually unfindable because there were no
instruments to be unearthed either.
Yet - one of my CD's are openly pirated on the internet and
the companies who sell my work, my YEARS of work as
downloadable files are STEALING from me as I struggle year
in and year out to do what I do for the oboe d'amore and the
other rare oboes to survive.
I have written complaining - I am ignored. How much would it
cost me to get a US lawyer on the case? Far more than I can
afford.
In the small print of these sites it is stated that 50% of the
revenue goes to the artist. That is rubbish. Not only did I
never give these people my CD's, I have no contract, they
are stealing and they know just how much money it would
cost me to fight them. I some cases, they can be obtained
as free downloads.
PLEASE do not purchase from these people, only from me.
If there is a lawyer in the list who feels (s)he can help me, I
wold be very grateful.
I am surely not the only one - but the cost to me personally
is enormous. What I have done for the oboe d'amore is not
for some idiot company to steal - it is for me to desperately
try to pay for the next publication so that I can bring
everything I have to those who will never hear from their
teachers that the oboe d'amore has no repertoire, as I did.
I feel that I have spent 40 years slaving at something which
people take from my instrument's heritage. I don't want to
bring out any of the rest of my music because of this. Why
slave just to have it stolen?
There is a LOT that is wrong with today's world and respect for
others and their differences, their work and their study is in great
measure, the culprit.
A major company - emusic.com is doing this as well as others.
Do not buy music like this - it is stolen. Who cares? I do. I am
not a pop star, I'm a single musician fighting to make an
instrument survive, yet companies like this with a "reputation"
rob me of my rightful income.
There is a LOT that is wrong, Bear.
sincerely,
Jennifer
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Jennifer I. Paull, Ph.D.
President
Amoris International
http://www.amoris.com
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