Re: Public Domain
Originally Posted by
Mandosopher
One last note: I wonder if a lot of the tension around these issues comes from the fact that any society has to encourage both innovation, to keep creating new things, and tradition, to hand on cultural treasures.
I agree, almost. But my pain is coming from my experience with ITM, where tradition is not preservation. Instead, it's constant innovation, everybody creating their own variations of tunes all the time, and new tunes are just variations of other tunes.
From this viewpoint, a composer is somebody who takes money for something we do for free, and who is carried on the shoulders of suits most of whom probably never played a note.
the world is better off without bad ideas, good ideas are better off without the world
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