Klarinet Archive - Posting 000021.txt from 2010/07

From: "James Sclater" <sclater@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sheet music copyright
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:36:14 -0400

Mr. Hausmann's point is well thought out. As a composer, a portion of my
income is derived from the music I write. The ability to receive payment
for what I do is one of the factors that keeps me composing. If my music
is given away, I want to be the one that makes that decision. My music
is NOT for someone else to give away. When someone other than my
publisher takes my music and gives it away or sells it to someone else,
it's called theft because it deprives me of what is rightfully mine. I
just want to be adequately compensated for my efforts. We all have to
make a living. I

James Sclater

James S. Sclater
Professor of Music
Mississippi College
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>>> bhausmann1@-----.net 07/01/10 8:02 PM >>>
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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