Disklavier

I don't know that I would call it greed.  After all, Yamaha does something 
strange, like PAY artists to record and produce those PianoSoft disks you 
buy.  Thanks to people like Spencer Chase we have wonderful libraries of 
music available in MIDI format from player piano rolls which was probably 
royalty free. I am a believer in artists being able to earn a reasonable 
living and provide for their children.  But I do think the process can be 
taken too far as upheld by the Supreme Court last week.

Our honorable Congress and yours has only allowed pre 1930's music to enter 
the public domain, and Disney and Sony bought them off so that Mickey Mouse 
will not enter the public domain for at least another 95 years!  That is 
what is really at stake here. Our art, music and literature has been 
purchased by large corporations so that nothing created in our parent's 
pasts will be available in our lifetimes, our children's lifetimes, and our 
grandchildren's lifetimes for free. I sometimes think that is the reason 
"classical" music survives so well; yes it sounds nice, but it is FREE!

Carol Beigel
crbrpt@...

>From: "midi_magic2000 <magic_midi@...>" <magic_midi@...>
>Reply-To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [disklavier] Re: Downloading Midi Files
>Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:41:03 -0000
>
>In one word GREED.
>Why sell a CD with hundreds of songs on when you can sell one with 8
>on for \ufffd30.
>If Yamaha were to fill a CDrom up with Midi or Pianosoft files it
>would cost more then the Disklavier itself.
>
>Midi Magic
>


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