This blog post[1], from the music composer Jason Robert Brown, discusses the morality and legality of copyright in the context of sheet music. It's based around an exchange with a teenager that evolves into a pretty interesting debate. It mentions Wikipedia, and links to other discussions that popped up in response. The ignorance of the basics of copyright law, and the ramifications in the Internet age, echo whats been written about (and on) Wikipedia over the years.
Also on the same subject, David Pogue and Michael Hawley (formerly of MIT Medialab): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/technology/personaltech/08pogue-web.html
[1] http://www.jasonrobertbrown.com/weblog/2010/06/fighting_with_teenagers_a_cop... --
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
This blog post[1], from the music composer Jason Robert Brown, discusses the morality and legality of copyright in the context of sheet music. It's based around an exchange with a teenager that evolves into a pretty interesting debate. It mentions Wikipedia, and links to other discussions that popped up in response. The ignorance of the basics of copyright law, and the ramifications in the Internet age, echo whats been written about (and on) Wikipedia over the years.
Also on the same subject, David Pogue and Michael Hawley (formerly of MIT Medialab): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/technology/personaltech/08pogue-web.html
[1] http://www.jasonrobertbrown.com/weblog/2010/06/fighting_with_teenagers_a_cop...
Thanks for those links. I didn't have time to read all the comments on the blog! But the blog and the article were interesting, especially the point about how in some areas (obscure sheet music by long-dead composers, as opposed to sheet music by living composers) the crowdsourcing approach has produced better results than those selling sheet music. And the comments about business models reminded me of the debate about how digital photography changed the business model for the production of photograph prints.
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