Klarinet Archive - Posting 000165.txt from 2010/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sheet music copyright
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:46:37 -0400

At 03:01 PM 7/9/2010, Joseph Wakeling wrote:
>On 07/09/2010 04:56 AM, Bill Hausmann wrote:
> > More performances are irrelevant to them if they do not get paid for them
>
>I thought the whole point of the model I described was that the
>producers would get paid for other performances.

Not if performers get the music for free.

> > Broadway shows are major cash cows for the publishers and are
> jealously guarded.
>
>Yes, publishers have been jealously guarding things ever since it was
>first mooted that the Stationers' Guild of England might have to give up
>its monopoly on printing.
>
>But I thought we were talking about composers, theatres and producers?
>Why should we care what the publishers think? :-)

The producers turn over the operation of publishing, rentals, etc.,
to companies such as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Tams-Witmark, and Music
Theater International. They are responsible for distribution, for
which they get a cut, and the producers, composers, and writers get
royalties. Theaters get a cut of the gate, nothing more.

Bill Hausmann

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

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