Dear Ron, that is exactly the difference between our game
the big game. The big companies have to pay to Harry Fox or
the corresponding companies just their share from actual
salesw. Right, you heard it right, from actual sales. A
marge of about 8% of the list price. But we the niche
producers, providing the most interesting things, we have
to pay in advance for a minimum of 500 copies, no matter we
sell it or not. We do sell them, but for a high price for
us. Advertising eats up all the profit too easily, but we
have something we can deduct from income. That´s it.
The single copies you take for yourself, are tolerated by
most companies. Nobody can take you to court if you make a
copy from a piece of music, when there is no publisher
claiming it as part of his publications. Nobody will take
you to court if you make a copy of such pieces to study it
to evaluate it. If it is no longer available, you might make
a copy rewrite it destroy the copy, as it has been used
as a working media only.
Here in the E.U., law is different, giving you the freedom
to copy that information for yourself, but they prohibit the
professional use of it, except things have become public
domain.
But we are talking here about the personal rights of the
individuals appearing as artists in the videos. Their rights
have not expired. Public performances do not make the
artistic performance public domain. Published video or audio
material or unpublished audio or video media is covered
either 25 or 50 years depending on the different law in
different countries. But self published media on ones own
home page is covered by copyright artistic rights as long
as no other use is granted. If there is a clear statement
regarding this media, that it is copyrighted, nobody is
allowed to steal it republish it somewhere else without
severe consequences.
We do our work expect it be respected. If one needs that
(so with my homepage) , one should write a short letter
ask for permission, which is granted mostly. But it is more
a matter of courtesy than of money. I never charged for the
use of pictures or text from my homepage.
I give you an example, a true one: Years ago I gave a free
copy of Freibergs Naturhornschule to a young American
colleague, playing at a smaller theatre. He asked me then,
if I could give him another copy of the same work, so he
could take it apart for easier copying for his students ! -
ing-rrring---rrring !
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