Internet Player Piano Commentary
By Stephen Kent Goodman
>A case in point is the
> company that is claiming its patent involving
> a way to sell player piano music somehow gives
> them the right to "a cut" whenever you download
> a file from a network.
I would suggest contacting the licensing dept. of ASCAP in New York. As a composer & publisher member, when I make a file available for downloading, I indicate that it is for personal enjoyment only and may not be distributed for profit. Knowing that this is ambiguous and impossible to enforce at best, I only allow tunes out that will give a demonstration of the styles I offer. If I want to make some money (not easily done in this business), I will issue arrangements for sale on disks. THEN- if any of the tunes that have been released as disk numbers, "appear" on a BBS or FTP or Web site for "free" downloading, I will have a trackable (in theory) data trail to pursue prosecution.
I hope this input and opinion may be of some use.
Stephen Kent Goodman
dba Sound Traditions Publishing, A.S.C.A.P. |
(Message sent Thu 26 Sep 1996, 16:29:59 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.) |
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