Klarinet Archive - Posting 000117.txt from 2010/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sheet music copyright
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:34:16 -0400

At 11:20 AM 7/7/2010, Joseph Wakeling wrote:
>On 07/05/2010 10:05 PM, James Sclater wrote:
> > Hooray for Kevin Fay.
>
>I disagree with many of his points, but I'm happy to give a Hooray for
>him. We should say more Hoorays for list members.
>
> > Copying is copying, no matter the technology. Stealing is stealing.
>
>Of course copying is copying, and of course stealing is stealing. But
>copying is not stealing, even though sometimes the law penalizes it in
>similar ways.
>
>See e.g.: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2425
>
>... which is written by a publisher with more than a little stake in
>people continuing to buy his company's products.
>
>For a more amusing take on this, you might see:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4
>
>Note that this is a reworking of an original piece by another composer:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djVaJN0f0VQ
>
>... who released it with the deliberate intention that it be re-used,
>re-mixed and re-made. Now look around YouTube and see all the different
>wonderful creative work people have done based on it.
>
>Isn't that a marvellous thing? :-)

Catchy, cute, and COMPLETELY wrong!!! But very soothing to those who
would like to justify their own actions.

Bill Hausmann

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

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