Klarinet Archive - Posting 000286.txt from 2010/06

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sheet music copyright
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:56:57 -0400

On 07/01/2010 01:38 AM, Michelle Guajardo wrote:
> And shame on our country for allowing that to happen.

It was a fairly cheap shot of me to make that remark, especially given
that I wasn't even born in the 1950s, but you did rather set yourself up
for it, and I thought it made an appropriate point ... :-)

I'd ask you to consider the more substantial points I'm making, though
-- that whatever the present legal situation, there is a good case to be
made for the law to permit exactly the kind of copying that Eleanor was
arguing in favour of.

It's not good enough to dismiss this as the whining of an uppity
teenager (which, incidentally, I don't think is a fair description of
Eleanor). There are a lot of different people, highly educated, from
many different fields of work -- authors, composers, artists, scientists
-- who are convinced the present copyright system is seriously,
seriously broken and is an inappropriate solution to the balancing of
creator and consumer needs in the internet age.

If I point out to you that one of the senior members of the French
branch of the Pirate Party (yes, it really exists) is a talented young
composer, perhaps it can at least be recognized that not all creators of
artistic works see their careers as being best supported by the current
copyright system ... ?

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