Klarinet Archive - Posting 000169.txt from 2010/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sheet music copyright
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:34:08 -0400

At 05:54 AM 7/10/2010, you wrote:
>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."

Nice in theory, but impossible to enforce. And pointless. If the
producers get paid, the free copies are not free. You might as well
get the good ones on better paper, etc. and save your ink. On the
other hand, I DO support, as a "fair use" provision, the right to
make additional copies as necessary for a performance once the
standard number have been paid for. And handing out photocopies of
school band music to students so the originals can be kept on file
and not lost or destroyed. Publishers do not agree with me there,
although it is almost universally done.

Some tiny new publishers do work on a "site license" basis, where
once the work has been purchased (usually by download) you are
permitted unlimited copying for your group alone. No sharing with
others! There is a possible future here, but it depends upon the
honesty of the purchasers, a shaky premise at best these days.

> > 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.

And it is very unlikely to change in the foreseeable
future. However, you are welcome to develop a new system. Good luck.

Bill Hausmann

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

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