[HANASHIR:4104] Re: Universal Jewish Music License

[Daniel A. Singer <dasinger...>]

Go Jeff!  I think it's a fabulous idea, and that we could even do away with
the simple form to be filled out and instead have the files controlled by a
centralized source that would have the capacity to maintain records of who
downloaded what.  This is often done on web sites.  In terms of copying
music, I don't think there's a good way to be sure that everything was
being reported honestly.  But anything done electronically over the web
could be monitored and properly credited.  I like it..  JASCAP!

Dan Singer

At 01:24 PM 10/7/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Michael Freed wrote:
>
><<We would all agree that available music should be purchased (or, as with 
>some church music publishers, that a license were available to cover 
>organizational use of the entire catalog).>>
>
>It would be so "simple", at least theoretically, for the North American
>Jewish community to get its music leaders and publishers together and work
>out a system of licensing, sort of like a Jewish ASCAP.  Each congregation,
>religious school or camp would pay a yearly fee, based, perhaps, on
>membership size, something like .50 per member, and for that fee you have
>the right to download music, copy music, use lyrics in a shiron, etc.  Do
>you have a volunteer choir?  Then you pay an extra fee of $5 or $10 per
>choir member for the right to use choral music.  The cantor/music director
>fills out a simple form three or for times a year of which pieces he/she
>has copied, and the "Merkaz Musica" sends a small fee to the
>publisher/copyright holder of that music.  (Israeli publishers could be
>represented as well.)  Like I said, it is a simple idea in theory - all
>that is needed is that the movements and commercial enterprises TALK to
>each other!  Over bagels and lox in Dan Freelander's office ;-), or holed
>up in a retreat center somewhere.  Im tirtsu ain zo agada - this is
>something that could become a reality if our institutions and leaders make
>it a priority!
>
>Jeff Klepper
>
>
>


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