[HANASHIR:16062] Re: Minchag for arrangements

[Robin Sparr <rssings...>]

  ilana axel wrote:

> But, if one is not
> intending to profit from the arrangement, can one
> share it freely without consent from the original song
> composer?
I don't think so, because any arrangement would certainly include the 
original composer's composition, which generally would not  distributed 
without permission.  Adrian correctly makes the point that many 
composers are happy to share their music and recordings for little or 
no compensation, in order to promote their music.  But they still do 
own it, and for anyone other than the composer to distribute it, 
without permission, would seem to me to be not so menschlicht.  In the 
schools where I've taught, I've often been asked to make recordings of 
the songs I teach, but have been very very reluctant to do so, and 
instead have provided discographies and encouraged families to BUY the 
music of our contemporary Jewish American composers instead.  (I must 
admit: before I was aware of the rules, I did make a recording with one 
of my choirs, and was taken to task about it subsequently; that 
experience certainly informs my current position on this issue.)
-robin s-r

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