Klarinet Archive - Posting 000020.txt from 2010/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sheet music copyright
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:02:28 -0400

At 10:23 AM 7/1/2010, you wrote:
>On 07/01/2010 04:05 PM, bhausmann1@-----.net wrote:
> > But why would anyone bother to produce the milk, car, book, or
> whatever in the first place if others could just freely copy it
> without paying for it? There would never be an original TO copy
> without the composer, author, publisher, or manufacturer being able
> to support himself by the endeavor.
>
>Why did Mozart, Beethoven and others bother to produce their
>compositions when others could (and did) freely copy them after they
>were produced?
>
>Why did Shakespeare write his plays when actors could (and did) run off
>to other companies and perform their own versions?
>
>Don't assume that just because there is not payment per copy of a given
>creation, that there need not be revenue streams that derive from it ...

As you point out, a revenue stream WAS created, largely as a result
of their OWN performances. My point stands. Making a living is
critical to the creation process, today as always, even though the
details may have changed. Remove that motivation and creation will
be possible ONLY by those who are independently wealthy and can
afford to do it for purely artistic reasons. Mozart and Beethoven
and Shakespeare would most emphatically NOT have been among that
group! And the composers and writers of that day fought against
those who would steal their intellectual property without the benefit
of today's copyright laws, because it was literally taking the food
from their mouths.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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