[HANASHIR:4106] Re: Universal Jewish Music License

[Rabbi Richard Schachet <lvrabbi...>]

Has anyone contacted my son-in-law Wally Schachet Briskin about this idea
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From: MahTovu (at) aol(dot)com <MahTovu (at) aol(dot)com>
To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: 07/mm/1999 11:47 PM
Subject: [HANASHIR:4105] Re: Universal Jewish Music License


>A great suggestion, Jeff, et al. Setting up the mechanics of permissions,
>royalties, etc. will be the relatively easy part. The hard part will be the
>process of educating our community and creating a new culture around the
>proper uses of copyrighted material (as someone else said, getting them to
do
>the right thing because it's the right thing - that's what Jews do). And
not
>be the doomsayer, but that will be an uphill battle. As you can tell from
the
>previous (lengthy) discussion on this list, many people either don't know
the
>legalities, or just don't care.
>
>In addition to being a composer, am the business manager for A.R.E.
>Publishing, one of the major publishers of Jewish educational materials
(and
>a distributor of Jewish music, both recorded and printed) and, while I
can't
>prove it beyond doubt, I am certain that a number of our customers purchase
>single copies of certain materials and photocopy them in large numbers for
>their students. Their "rationalization" would be that the budget is tight,
>the books are expensive, more students registered for school than we
>expected, it's only a few pages, etc. I would bet that some of the
customers
>don't even see anything wrong with doing it - and certainly don't
understand
>that they are breaking the law. So we will have our work cut out for us...
>we'll be asking institutions to start paying for something that they've
never
>had to pay for before, and G-d knows what kind of response we'll get to
that.
>
>Having said all that count me in! And definitely get Judy C-G and JERD on
>board. She made some contacts with BMI recently that could be helpful.
>
>Nice to start beating on a fresh young horse, huh?
>
>Steve Brodsky
>Founding member of Mah Tovu (contemporary, original Jewish music)
>Cantorial Soloist
>Music Educator
>Guitarist/Singer/Songwriter
>Denver, Colorado
>
>
>



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