Klarinet Archive - Posting 000239.txt from 2009/02

From: Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Fair Use
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:58:18 -0500

At 6:42 PM +0000 2/11/09, Matthew Lloyd wrote:
>If a second copy is necessary for a page turn, then buy another copy or
>memorise it. If you can't memorise it, buy the second copy.
>
>Do you see why a page turn copy could be a pecuniary loss? Not a huge loss,
>certainly, but a loss none the less.
>
>Matthew

Utter nonsense. There is no loss in sales, because somebody made a
page-turn copy. In fact, the opposite is likely true. By making a
page-turn copy, which thereby makes the work more usable and
playable, it increases the popularity of the work, which would
thereby cause more people to buy it.

Nobody is going to buy a second copy of the work, because they need
page turn copies. And NOBODY HAS EVER BEEN SUED FOR DOING SO.

Piling nonsense on nonsense and making your proclamations of what the
law is, does not define the law. The courts define the law in their
decisions made in cases brought before them.

--
Jonathan Cohler
Artistic & General Director
International Woodwind Festival
http://iwwf.org/
cohler@-----.org

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