Klarinet Archive - Posting 001050.txt from 1999/05

From: Ken Wolman <kwolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gigliotti Recording "First Chair" LP....
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 16:44:52 -0400

>> There is a line reaching to the door. I'm on it, too.
>
>Careful. It might be a line with badges on it. If anyone were to discuss
>breaking copyright laws, off-line would probably be more prudent.

Sadly, this information is correct, and indeed I and others should keep
these discussions "offline." Since 1995, I've belonged (on and off) to
Opera-L, a list even busier than this one. People routinely used to make
frequent requests for tapes of live performances that someone might have
copied from a TV or radio broadcast. The listowner informed us that even
to make a copy of a tape for your own use is patently illegal unless you
listen to it once and then erase it at once (don't blame me for being the
messenger, I didn't write these stupid laws); and to make a copy of your
illegal copy for someone else is nothing short of a violation of the 11th
Commandment, Thou Shalt Not Deprive An Artist, Record Company, or Local 803
of Its Piece of Pie Even Though the Recording Has Been Out of Circulation
for Thirty-Five Years.

This message was taken to heart by the Opera-L'ers, many of whom suddenly
developed an alternative fondness for dim sum and other kinds of dumplngs,
and would ask if anyone had a dumpling recipe they might have been working
from during the Saturday afternoon broadcast from the Met or the Lyric of
Chicago. Even the gub'mint cannot object to people preparing dinner while
they chastely listen to music on their own radio.

Caveat fresser.

Ken

Kenneth Wolman kwolman@-----.net
"From the Meadowlands": http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/1649

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