RE: HANASHIR digest

[Erik L. F. Contzius <eriklfc...>]

>I'd hate to think that if someone asked me to teach them a song so they
>could know and teach it, that my appropriate resposne should be "Go and buy
>the song book and/or recording..."
>
>Let's not reduce our sharing of our heritage through music to "business."
>
>Rick Lupert

Let us not forget, however, that many a composer's livelihood is _based_ on
their sales of recorded and _printed_ music. What is the motivation for
buying printed music? Learning and sharing it. One can learn a piece of
music any way they wish (learn it off the record, hear it live), but the
appropriate action thereafter would be to own the printed music--and this
is not about business, it is about encouraging composers to compose...
they're not out there printing their music (more often than not, also
footing the bill to initially get it printed, which nowadays could run
about $4-5,000 for a _small_ songbook) for their health.

let's respect and protect intellectual property. if one truly cannot afford
to buy the music, than so be it; however, since everyone reading this
digest has to at least be able to: own a modem, a computer, an ISP account,
etc., it's hard for me to believe that that is a reasonable excuse.

Hazzan Erik L. F. Contzius
Omaha, Nebraska

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