Klarinet Archive - Posting 000008.txt from 2010/07

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sheet music copyright
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:39:50 -0400

On 07/01/2010 12:22 PM, Roger Hewitt wrote:
> Perhaps the best way to persuade Eleanor is to say that if she recorded this song how peeved would she be if everybody copied the recording for their computers, iPods, .... but never paid her for the performance? I reckon she'd change her mind then - and that's only a performance not the original creative effort.

You forget -- lots of young people are recording lots of songs of their
own original creation and putting them on the internet _explicitly for
others to share_. Probably Eleanor already has.

That's not to say there aren't norms among them for what counts as good
or bad sharing. But we are seeing a significant generational shift in
attitudes, one that's substantially related to one generation having
lived their formative years in the ages of hard-copy books, records and
so on, and the younger one having grown up in a world where it is
possible with a click of a button to get your work seen and shared among
millions of people.

Lots of young people are (rightly, in my opinion) recognizing that this
capacity for _reach_ and connecting with so many people is worth far,
far more in the long run than the financial returns that might be
received if they put a price tag on every copy.

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