What do you make of this ???

Irish Flute
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/21/technology/21ecom.html?th&emc=th

:confused:

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Sadly, this has been going on for several years now, with regards to tablature. The music industry execs are so f’n greedy, don’t even get me started, what with the price of CD’s (and how little they cost to manufacture), plus the ridiculous price of concert tickets, and on and on…

Free sharing of privately transcribed music notation is not a crime - what’s next, your local guitar teacher can’t teach you to play “Smoke on the Water” or “Stairway to heaven” based on him having learned it by ear and then teaching you? Heaven forbid he should write down the chords and lead lines for you. Hey, guess what, you can’t even learn by ear any more, gotta buy a book of notation, and even then, don’t even cthink about playing a copyrighted tune in your livingroom for your girlfriend Johhny, you might get something tangible from the transaction and then the man is going to sue your ass.

What a bunch of crap. Hey Bono, where the F are you now buddy??? What, we haven’t made you freakin’ rich enough yet?


Bite Me.


Loren

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Yeah. Weasels, all of 'em. :angry:

That’s why the big record companies won’t touch trad folk music, no copyright to milk for every penny they can screw out of the public.

Oh, and don’t be singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to anyone in public, that’s copyright too y’know. You’ve got to pay to sing that song.

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I don’t think it’s anything new…sounds like the history of fake books (and “the Real Book”) taken to the internet. Publishers have always wanted to get their dollar every time someone gets a copy of sheet music. Musicians have always wanted to share sheet music cheaply/freely.

The musicians have generally won so far. Maybe not in court, where most musicians can’t afford to fight, but on the street, where it generally matters most anyway.

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Exactly why we end up having such formulaic drivel, from cardboard cut-outs, pushed on us constantly.


Snakes on a plane ain’t scary at all, Record Execs on plane, now THAT’s scary! :astonished:



Loren

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…and don’t think you’re flying under the radar when you just play the tunes through in your mind. That still constitutes product-usage, and the meter is running. No free lunch here, buddy! :moreevil:

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I can’t believe it’s taken so long for nytimes to catch on! The RIAA
all but shut down OLGA.net back in the 90’s. I think it’s time to go
back to USENET groups like alt.guitar.tabs.bite.me.RIAA, which are
decentralized and harder to sue.

P.S.: Oops, looks like OLGA’s gotten a cease and desist again… crap.

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“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic
hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.
There’s also a negative side.”
-Hunter S. Thompson

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Great quote.


Loren

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Seriously is there much difference between Record execs and Snakes?

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Snakes aren’t slimy.

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Exactly what I was thinking. I while ago I googled this, trying to find some more info. Apparently Thompson never actually said “and there’s a negative side” except in the minds of his fans - there’s no record of it. But whoever came up with it is a genius.


But yes, the corporate gestapo have found some more victims. :swear:

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So ABC’s must be for the chop too… Mr Norbek will be dragged away in chains never to be seen again, armed police will raid The Session head quarters!

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Only if they’re ABCs of copyright works. The traditional stuff is quite safe I reckon.

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dear gary: your age is showing. happy birthday has been in the public domain for a few years now. here’s a link http://www.martymethod.com/Happybirthday.htm

i’ve sure copied my fair share of music and spent countless hours at these websites. i can see where folks would consider this stealing. too bad everything in life that we want isn’t free. if it were, i’d own a rockin’ yacht.

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dear mutepointe: Here’s some links for you too :slight_smile:

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp

http://www.unhappybirthday.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You

The copyright on the happy birthday lyrics and melody haven’t expired yet. It’ll be 2030 before it’s public domain in the USA. A tad earlier outside of the USA.

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thanks. the mayan calendar has the world ending in 2012, 2030 seems a bit excessive.