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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostBut calling it piracy isn't going to make it go away. It's now become the case that almost all recorded music has become available to almost everyone, and the question is what do we (musicians and/or listeners) do with this situation? I'm sure that similar kinds of objections were raised when printing was invented and suddenly it was possible for literacy and knowledge and literary culture to spread far wider than it had done before. At the same time it put professional scribes and copyists out of a job. What we're seeing is surely a comparable democratisation of culture, which brings with it the redundancy of certain "traditional" professions, in the case under discussion music publishing, which is now effectively over. For me this has meant a change between a publisher owning the results of my work, and nobody owning it. I think that can easily be seen as a step in the right direction. There remains the question of making a living, but as I've said before, I think it's more appropriate (as long as the concept of "earning a living" remains central to the way human beings live) to earn it by doing things than by owning things.
"Go home and listen to this on YouTube" is a common suggestion, made weekly by choir directors. I wonder how long this can continue.
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostIt's easy for some to look the other way and say it's fine for people to get as much free music on tap as they want.
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostBut calling it piracy isn't going to make it go away.
Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostIt's now become the case that almost all recorded music has become available to almost everyone, and the question is what do we (musicians and/or listeners) do with this situation? I'm sure that similar kinds of objections were raised when printing was invented and suddenly it was possible for literacy and knowledge and literary culture to spread far wider than it had done before. At the same time it put professional scribes and copyists out of a job. What we're seeing is surely a comparable democratisation of culture, which brings with it the redundancy of certain "traditional" professions, in the case under discussion music publishing, which is now effectively over. For me this has meant a change between a publisher owning the results of my work, and nobody owning it. I think that can easily be seen as a step in the right direction. There remains the question of making a living, but as I've said before, I think it's more appropriate (as long as the concept of "earning a living" remains central to the way human beings live) to earn it by doing things than by owning things.
Whilst earning from doing - rather than from both doing and owning - might sound fine in principle, I don't see how it could be achieved in the field of music composition without immense sacrifices of music itself - unless music composition were to come to be regarded as a mere part-time activity of hobbyists other than in the cases of a very small number of composers who can actually afford to survive on commissions alone or who don't need the money in the first place.
This is indeed a predicament - I accept that - and the fact that it's arguably become a kind of unintended consequence of technological progress not only cannot be denied but is also not to be bemoaned; the answer to it is, I think, to ensure that streaming and such like generate some realistic funds for composers rather than the fractions of a centime that it does per stream at present. The sheer cost of preparation of MCPS/PRS statements that have to include hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of individual entries for streaming and such like must alone have become quite an administrative and financial headache for that organisation and for its sister ones in other countries.Last edited by ahinton; 26-06-18, 11:12.
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In preparation, perhaps, for next Saturday's BaL - Stravinsky's Mass, performed by the RIAS Kammerchor, with members of musikfabrik conducted by Daniel Reuss:
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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