Hi David et al-- David wrote:
> You make an important point, but I feel that I need to trust my > potential customers. I realize that this may be naive, and that in > reality photocopying may well occur, but there is really nothing I can > do about it. I don't think the extra steps necessary for the personal > branding will help for that, since as you say it will be easy to simply > mask the "Exclusively for the use of" statement. At Handlo Music we use "© Handlo Music 200x: Licensed for limited copying (see Terms)" The terms are explained clearly on our website. > I am leaning towards distributing my music where each work would be > combined into a single PDF file, scores and parts, and that the person > who purchases it would also be purchasing the right to make as many > copies as necessary for their group to use the work. Thus it could be > distributed as downloads or on CDrom, very easily, with almost no > distribution expense on my end. At Handlo we usually have choral pieces offered in the following formats and the customer chooses what they want): 1- choral part only 2- choral w/ accompaniment When the piece uses more than one instrument we also have: 1- conducting edition (all parts) 2- choral with accomp reduction 3- instrumental parts alone Sometimes the instr parts are a single file, sometimes not. > I believe I might also offer a printed version for an extra cost, on > heavy-stock paper, for those who don't want to print their own. I do this very thing at Harrock Hall Music, which is *separate* from Handlo, on archival-quality papers. Shipping costs are the disincentive for some people...... best to all, then- Cecil Rigby HarrockHallMusic [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~hhmusic/HHM Handlo Music Ltd. www.handlo.com TheSouthCarolinaFineArtsReview,Inc. ASCAP _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
