From: John Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <finale@shsu.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:47:53 -0400 To: <finale@SHSU.EDU> Subject: RE: [Finale] Digital music stands
> And something no one has even mentioned is this: How is the music of > many different publishers, in different countries all over the world, > and covered by many different copyright laws which FORBID copying in > any form, using any technology, supposed to get into these digital > stands or CDs or memory sticks in the first place? Until THAT > question is satisfactorily answered (and the whole allied matter of > rental agreements, Grand Rights, and all the other complications that > experienced Orchestral Librarians deal with on a daily basis), it > doesn't really matter HOW good the technology may be, or may become. Well, the reality is that in every band and orchestra I've ever played with, the librarian *does* photocopy all the parts before handing them out. They keep the originals in the library so if one of the musicians loses their music at some point, they aren't out the trumpet part, for example. And rarely, if ever, does the orchestra go to the trouble of obtaining and paying for the rights to copy the parts in that manner. Whether that's legal or not (the Fair Use doctrine-- which allows the user to make a back-up copy-- would seem to suggest that it is), the organizations do it anyway. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
