Klarinet Archive - Posting 000072.txt from 2010/07

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sheet music copyright
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:27:56 -0400

On 07/07/2010 04:02 PM, Joseph Fasel wrote:
> What Red Hat sells, essentially, is support for open-source software.
> Unfortunately, I can't see how this model could apply to music.

The "sell tours, CDs, DVDs and merchandise, distribute digital audio and
video files for free" model is not such a bad analogy. Something that
could also work would be for live venues (including radio and TV shows)
to pay composers to write new works, and performers to play them, and
distribute digital copies of sheet music and (live) recordings as
publicity material.

Again, it's a model that probably works better for commercial music than
for the more intentionally art-oriented composer, but then again, it's
not clear to me that sheet music sales are a particularly big part of
the income of the average classical composer anyway. (Parts rental is
another matter.)
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