At 12:50 PM 10/13/2003 -0400, Roman Turovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thank you, Eugene!!! This should make any further debate on this pointless.
I surely would join in this congratulation! but perhaps not on the same parts of Eugene's post Roman is congratulating him for. This is the part I like: > > To wantonly copy from facsimiles > > only increases a publisher's risk in printing facsimiles, making publishers > > less likely to do so in the future...and I personally don't want to have to > > pay "extremely expensive" fees to a holding library to access such stuff > > when publishers stop taking that risk. Well said. According to Roman's world view it is morally acceptable to copy anything that is in the public domain, even if that material has been brought before the public through the efforts and investment of somebody else. It is easy to find rationales for exploiting the work of others, but the short-sighted instant gratification urge to do so, completely ignores that doing so, is to damage the entire system of access to sources we have lived with for decades, and replacing it with nothing of equal value of or utility. A data base of lute material? administered by whom? collected by whom? maintained by whom, and at what cost? how big a coin would you have to pay the editor of this material, and who would pay for it? And what would you use for sources? The Complete Works of Dowland as published by Diana Poulton, or so one's else work doing the same research from scratch? Wishful thinking of the kind Ariel is engaging in is easy to come by when you are an impressionable pipsqueek who is overwhelmed by his present unfavorable economic situation. But deliberate fraud of the kind Roman is promoting is something else altogether. In that campaign the end Justifies the means, including of slanderous innuendos about my private dealings with Russian composers, which are none of Roman's business and definitely OT for this list, anything goes. Problem is that the End Roman is seeking, the complete destruction of the print music industry, and definitely the destruction of those publishers who have the gall to ask for money in exchange for lute books, is not going to hurt Roman's prospects at his day job. He will continue to support his family, as he should, no matter what happens to the lute. Consider this next time you kiss his poetic civil ass. One more thing: the entire thesis would have been plausible from _Roman_'s point of view, if all the known lute books that ever existed and are known to exist today, would have been published in facsimiles that he can rip off. Unfortunately for him and for his misguided predatory philosophy, that is far from being the case. We should be grateful to him and his ilk for the fact that the Franko University Library in Lviv, the Ukraine, refuses to allow anyone to have copies of the Lviv Manuscript or even to acknowledge its existence. Do prove me wrong, if you can. Matanya Ophee Editions Orphe'e, Inc., 1240 Clubview Blvd. N. Columbus, OH 43235-1226 Phone: 614-846-9517 Fax: 614-846-9794 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.orphee.com
