Klarinet Archive - Posting 000167.txt from 2010/07

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sheet music copyright
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:54:15 -0400

On 07/10/2010 07:46 AM, Bill Hausmann wrote:
> At 03:01 PM 7/9/2010, Joseph Wakeling wrote:
>> 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.

I believe my words were "a producer model where the sheet music itself
can be freely copied, as long as productions pay fees."

> 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.

You're speaking of how the existing system works. I'm speaking of how
imaginative new producers and theatres might want to collaborate for
mutual benefit.
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