Disklavier

I don't want to open a can of worms here, but I think it is okay for people to record music and distribute on this website. There are at least two copyrights for any song, and a myriad of licensing agreements that could be involved if you were to sell the music. Not only can a song be copyrighted, but so can it's performance. Some copyrights eventually expire. For Holiday music, many of the tunes are out of copyright. Dereck Barnes could copyright his performance but not the tune. I think we are all safe downloading his files and thank him for sharing his performance. It's not like he is making any money on this.

Carol Beigel

----- Original Message -----

From: George F. Litterst

To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 10:07 AM

Subject: Re: [disklavier] Dereck Barnes MIDI File . . .

Good morning, everyone.

The file is lovely, of course. However, I would like to point out that it contains copyrighted music for which the law expects a recording royalty to be paid when publicly distributed. Unless a fee has been paid for distribution, I suggest caution about sharing these files as email attachments. Each one of us who receives and opens the email inadvertently downloads an apparently illegal file.

Please note that I am not defending the law, I am merely pointing out what I perceive to be the reality of the law.

Regards,

PianoBench

www.georgelitterst.com

www.timewarptech.com

On Dec 2, 2010, at 9:55 PM, ROBERT LEBLANC wrote:

Season's Greetings:

The file "Christmas Songs Played By Dereck Barnes 2000.mid" can be found in the Files section of the Yahoo Disklavier users group site:

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/disklavier/files/Holidays/Christmas/

I've also attached it here, but not sure if subscribers can receive file attachments?

Best Regards,

Robert LeBlanc

From: "Glenn R. Smutny" <G.SMUTNY@...>

Date: December 2, 2010 8:06:42 PM EST

To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com

Subject: RE: [disklavier] Re: Merry Christmas From Me and Dereck

Reply-To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com

Hi Larry,

Please count me in on that as well. It certainly would make for a great early Christmas present.

Thank you in advance,

Glenn

From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com ;[mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Larry McKenzie
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 6:43 PM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Re: Merry Christmas From Me and Dereck

I'll try to find it for you. I know I have it somewhere.

Larry McKenzie

On Dec 2, 2010, at 4:26 PM, "shelleybacon" <shelleybacon@...> wrote:

Dear Larry - I was searching for Christmas music for my Disklavier and ran across this old post. Sadly, the attachment is not available. Do you still have the file, and if so, can you attach it again please? I would be very grateful, and chances are others in the group would be too.

Thanks in advance. (And here's hoping you're still a member of this group!)
Shelley

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "Larry McKenzie" wrote:
>
> Merry Christmas everybody. Attached is a file that I tried to send a few
> days ago and i don't think it got through. It is a large midi file with
> lots of christmas music recorded by my friend Dereck Barnes a few months ago
> when we were practicing at my house in anticipation of Christmas gigs. I
> just started the recorder and let it run then deleted the blank spots. Hope
> you enjoy it. If you do please send Dereck an email at dbac@... and
> let him know how good he is.
>
> Thanks, Larry.
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