Klarinet Archive - Posting 000274.txt from 2009/02

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Fair Use
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:29:37 -0500

And one of these days, all of this may blow up. Those kids all have parents,
and the chance that one of those parents works in music publishing or for
the US Department of Justice increases with every school program that adopts
this practice. And as public school systems devote more and more of their
limited financial resources to the Impossible Dream of complying with NCLB
(100% of students achieving a level of Proficient in math and reading on
state tests) even less money will be available for many programs we take for
granted, among them instrumental music.

Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Kantor [mailto:klarinet@-----.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 8:51 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Fair Use
>
> Kids routinely show up at lessons with copies of their District
> Festival,
> All-County Music, etc...
>
> Their school band music, when they happen to bring their band folder to
> lessons, I notice is almost 100% copies.
>
> In fact - I am actually surprised when I actually see an original part.
>
> After their concerts are over, these copies are never collected and the
> students keep them in their folders for (seemingly) years on end.
>
> All-State Festivals and All-Eastern Festivals? I can't recall ever
> seeing a
> Xerox copy of a piece.
>
>
> Glenn B Kantor (GBK)
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Blumberg" <blummy@-----.net>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 8:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [kl] Fair Use
>
>
> > It seems nowadays that even District Bands are sending copies (ALL
> COPIES)
> > to the students and yes, EVEN PERFORMING with them.
> >
> > That's to me pretty high profile but that's what they are doing as
> I've
> > seen it firsthand. And a lot of school systems aren't using the
> originals
> > at all except to copy backups to pass out to the students.
> > So the original part is being protected, but is wear and tear, loss
> to be
> > expected and a part of the overall cost of playing that piece? If
> you
> > have 24 Clarinets and only 12 parts, is copying the other 12 right?
> >
> > Doubt it, but that's the common and reoccurring theme.
> >
> > Maybe the music company should be glad that one Band Director didn't
> share
> > his library with another.......?
> >
> > Then there's the rental issue. Why rentals even exist boggles me.
> >
> >
> > David Blumberg
> > http://www.mytempo.com
> >
> >
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