Re: [LAU] ASCAP Assails Free-Culture, Digital-Rights Groups

On Thursday 01 July 2010 10:01:04 Joep L. Blom wrote:
> Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> > I'll go even further than that. In many cases these days music is
> > designed to act as a form of prozac and distraction from the real issues
> > that we are constantly being subjected to in our daily lives. In the
> > past music was a way for people to express ideas and get across often
> > subversive messages from different lands and peoples to a mass audience.
> > These days popular music and any music that aims to be popular struggles
> > to educate people about the bigger picture if not actively avoids the
> > most important topics. At best a cursory glance is assigned that is
> > swiftly dealt with by flashy graphics and naked bodies flaunting their
> > warez. The industrial media and entertainment complex is abused to
> > deliver trite, sexually provocative and erotically stimulating drivel.
> > The constant merciless barrage of crap that we are subjected to by the
> > modern music industry is just another way of keeping us in check by the
> > few heriditary elite who own the empires and print the cash that funds
> > the industry. They should be paying us to listen to the majority of the
> > crap we are served not the other way around.
> >
> > I personally can't wait for it the industry to collapse under the weight
> > of it's own greed.
>
> There was a Roman emperor - Calligula - who spoke the historic words:"
> Give the people bread and games (and let us ,the elite, do what we
> want." So nothing has changed.
> The pulp and garbage which is pushed as "music" makes the listeners into
> 11-year old imbeciles whose only goal is to slave for their money, give
> it to the establishment and get - apparently enslaving - rubbish back.
>
> I'm a performing jazz musician now and was an IT consultant before (I am
> retired). What I earned then in half a day a never get in a set of gigs
> in a week. The hours spent in rehearsing, arranging, etc. are of course
> never paid. But, as many say: "it's your own choice" and that is right.
> I can not exist one day without playing the piano and when people want
> to pay to listen to me, that's OK . I play for myself and thankfully
> don't need it for my daily bread and butter.
> However, the company who will pay thousands of Euro's (I'm from the
> Netherlands) for me as IT-consultant to change some small and often
> insignificant business aspect in his organisation will not pay more than
> € 300,- for a 3 hour gig with a quartet (including travel etc. and
> including tax).
>
> All talk in this thread about copyright and laws etc. is only
> interesting for those who publish their work (either as CD or as
> downloadable tracks) but I never have these problems as we only play
> originals or standards in our own arrangements and if anybody want to
> play it, they're wellcome and I'll even give them the arrangements if
> they want.
> We play sometimes for the local radio. They transmit it and anybody can
> record it and burn in to a CD. Is that an infringement on my rights? No,
> as I have given that to the station.
>
> In my opinion in Jazz and classical music, this problem is negligible,
> at least in my network (mostly performing classical and jazz musicians).
> I have however no idea how this is in music I never listen to. But I
> assume that I'm of a much older generation.

Someone else having some thoughts on jazz and copyright:

Are Bad Copyright Laws Killing Jazz And Harming Jazz Musicians?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100615/0255059823.shtml

> Joep

all the best,

drew
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Received on Thu Jul 1 20:15:04 2010