Maybe that should real professional composers.
As a "non-professional" (although I did at one time perform - not on HG -
for a living (a poor one)) I certainly wouldn't have any problems with my
music being played (I have had experience in the past of "extra verses" I
have written for songs being accepted as "traditional" and doing the rounds
and even being sung on the radio several years later). Not a problem to me
but then I have no ego to manage nor any ideas that my stuff is any good to
anyone so the situation isn't going to arise.
I would be a bit fed up if someone else made money from them though and an
acknowledgement would be nice.
I certainly know that, during the 60's & 70's, it was quite commonplace to
allow others to perform your stuff for fun and, at my folk club, I had
several recording stars who said they accepted that as normal and, again,
didn't worry provided nobody made money from them or profited financially .
They even gave pointers out so others could perform them better.
Some of the larger stars were a little more restrictive though as they were
later filling concert halls, not folk clubs and changed their views on this.
I would take it as a great compliment.
Colin Hill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Sherwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: copyrighted material was Re: [HG] Music
Melissa,
I know it wasn't clear from my message but when I said 'how strongly
people
feel' I was thinking of the composers feelings, not the general list.
Hopefully
there are some composers (or people who know their thoughts) on this list
who might comment.
Paul
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Melissa Kacalanos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
How the folks on this list feel about this isn't the issue. What matters
is
how the composers feel about their music being published, and the only
way
to find that out is to ask them.
Let's say there's a musician who composes a good tune, so other musicians
want to play it. Someone might transcribe it and want to share it, say by
putting it online, for free, for other hobbyists to play, also for free.
Or
maybe he just hands out sheet music to his friends. No one is making
money
off this. Then what if the original composer later wants to publish a
book
of original tunes? The musicians who want that tune have already
downloaded
that tune for free, so there goes the potential market for that book.
Yes,
no one has made any money off of the composer's tune, but the composer
has
still been cheated.
Under US copyright law at least, this is illegal. More importantly, it's
a
mean thing to do to our fellow musicians.
I'm sure many musicians would be happy to share their music if you ask
them,
but the important thing is asking them.
Melissa
www.melissatheloud.com
Paul Sherwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think most people in the trad and folk world are happy to have people
play their tunes. Whether they are happy to have them published as
a manuscript (or other forms such as abc) is a different matter. Since
Blowzabella publish the books as part of their income, they might well
object to lost revenues if someone made a big ABC file and put it on the
net.
Any thoughts on how strongly people feel about this?
Paul
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:33 PM, DEREK LOFTHOUSE wrote:
> I am at work so i dont have the books here to check, but the 2nd
Blowzabella
> tune book says something to the effect of 'please feel free to play our
> tunes, but credit us and something about royalties if you are making
> money
> off of them'.
> I think most people writing music in the 'trad' world are just happy to
have
> their tunes played. I've been to workshops with Gilles Chabenat and he
> mainly works on his own tunes, so i think he is more than happy to see
> people play them
>
> hope this helps a little
>
> derek
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