Re: [abcusers] to post or not to post?

2001-04-04 Thread John Chambers
| Confooozin. and all gray areas. I liked the "money changing hands" idea. It's not necessarily all that grey. And "money changing hands" is irrelevant to copyright. Otherwise, if I had a grudge against you, I could make copies of your stuff and give them out for free, thus ending yo

RE: [abcusers] to post or not to post?

2001-04-04 Thread Richard L Walker
Confooozin. and all gray areas. I liked the "money changing hands" idea. I also liked the conceptual differences between a traditional tune, an arrangement of that tune and a performance of that tune -- and the copyright (or lack of) differences between them. "Richard L Walker"<[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [abcusers] to post or not to post?

2001-04-04 Thread John Chambers
Brad writes: | Thanks for the comments, all. Fear not, I have not violated any | laws since | this was only an idea --- the points raised by this little thread | has | dampened my enthusiasm for such a project. In fact, my feeling | is that even posting | tunes like Ashokan Farewell to the net i

Re: [abcusers] to post or not to post?

2001-04-04 Thread John Chambers
Brad writes: | Thanks for the comments, all. Fear not, I have not violated any | laws since | this was only an idea --- the points raised by this little thread | has | dampened my enthusiasm for such a project. In fact, my feeling | is that even posting | tunes like Ashokan Farewell to the net i

Re: [abcusers] to post or not to post?

2001-04-04 Thread John Chambers
Richard L Walker writes: | The irony (unless it involves money changing hands) is that people would | have a problem with a book, yet, you can take those same tunes, available | online in mid or abc format, and produce the same sheet music with several | programs. This is in part because the copy

RE: [abcusers] to post or not to post?

2001-04-04 Thread Richard L Walker
The irony (unless it involves money changing hands) is that people would have a problem with a book, yet, you can take those same tunes, available online in mid or abc format, and produce the same sheet music with several programs. "Richard L Walker"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pensacola, FL 32504-7726 US

Re: [abcusers] to post or not to post?

2001-04-04 Thread Brad Johnson
John Chambers wrote: > > | This brings to the forefront a very murky problem. I have > | a (not so) large collection of tunes in ABC format (<=100 :-). > | While most are in the public domain, some are not. > | For example, I have a version of Ashokan's Farewell written by > | Jay Unger in 1983.

Re: [abcusers] to post or not to post?

2001-04-04 Thread Frank Nordberg
Jack Campin wrote: > > > I was only interested in different people's reason for not wanting > > their music posted so that I could be more informed when the topic > > came up, like it did in the workshop this past weekend. > > Here are some I can think of: > > 1. I'm dead and I'm not listenin

Re: [abcusers] to post or not to post?

2001-04-03 Thread John Chambers
| This brings to the forefront a very murky problem. I have | a (not so) large collection of tunes in ABC format (<=100 :-). | While most are in the public domain, some are not. | For example, I have a version of Ashokan's Farewell written by | Jay Unger in 1983. | | Now (not so hypothetically),

Re: [abcusers] to post or not to post

2001-04-03 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Mike Whitaker wrote: > > Now (not so hypothetically), in the interest in promulgating > > (my particular brand of) music, I typeset my tunes and take them > > to the local music store and sell them with the proviso that all > > profits go to help offset the cost of musical ins

Re: [abcusers] to post or not to post

2001-04-02 Thread Mike Whitaker
> Now (not so hypothetically), in the interest in promulgating > (my particular brand of) music, I typeset my tunes and take them > to the local music store and sell them with the proviso that all > profits go to help offset the cost of musical instrument rentals > to under-privilaged children (I

Re: [abcusers] to post or not to post?

2001-04-02 Thread Brad Johnson
Hi, This brings to the forefront a very murky problem. I have a (not so) large collection of tunes in ABC format (<=100 :-). While most are in the public domain, some are not. For example, I have a version of Ashokan's Farewell written by Jay Unger in 1983. Now (not so hypothetically), in the

Re: [abcusers] to post or not to post?

2001-04-02 Thread Simon Wascher
Hello, Cindy wrote: > (...) Maybe I wasnt clear in stating that I was only interested in different >people's reason for not wanting their music posted (...) I was simply trying to get >a broader picture. So, I put a lot of music to the net which is in a way "public domain" because it is ma