Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

["Bob Kosovsky" <>]

Perhaps laws in the EU are different.  In the United States, merely
because you are on a published on a CD in no way entitles you to upload
that to the Internet and give it away for free.  And usually the artist is
not the person who can make that decision but a combination of the
publisher of the CD and the right holders of the works included.


Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts,
Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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> Bob,
>
> "Why is this person uploading a copyrighted musical work to Youtube?"
> - Illegal? Strong word, which should be used a bit careful, please.
>
> This person is a musician (me), which has made a recording by playing
> this piece on a piano. The recording becomes published on CDs and online
> (iTunes, Amazon & Co). It has nothing to do with youtube. The publishing
> rights are cleared by national music authors' societies, in my case the
> German "GEMA". For each sold CD or download I give a part of the (small
> enough) income to the right holders resp. the musical authors. So
> please: a little bit more careful (and attentive - who wrote anything
> about youtube?), before writing illegal.
>
> Sorry, for I am a little bit upset,
> Tim
>
>
> Here I have to clearify.
> Am 11.02.15 um 20:39 schrieb Bob Kosovsky:
>> My first reaction was "Why is this person uploading a copyrighted
>> musical
>> work to Youtube?"  Considering that such an upload is illegal (without
>> obtaining permission of the Cage Estate), calling that "censorship"
>> seems
>> to be rather ironic.
>>
>>
>> Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts,
>> Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
>> blog:  http://www.nypl.org/blog/author/44   Twitter: @kos2
>>     Listowner: OPERA-L ; SMT-TALK ; SMT-ANNOUNCE ; SoundForge-users
>> --- My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my institutions
>> ---
>>
>>
>
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