On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nathan <nawrich(a)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_co…
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.
Carcharoth