> I was only interested in different people's reason for not wanting
> their music posted so that I could be more informed when the topic
> came up, like it did in the workshop this past weekend.
Here are some I can think of:
1. I'm dead and I'm not listening to that ouija board (this is the
commonest one).
2. We're "they" and we're not telling you we are (this is the situation
with Jimmy Shand's compositions - *he* never managed to trace who all
the copyright holders were, so a complete edition of his work isn't
going to happen for decades).
3. Publishing this tune is not unconditionally legit but it raises some
interesting musical points, so I can post it here with limited
distribution in this discussion context and reasonably expect a court
to uphold that this is "fair use" (I've done this several times).
4. This is a work in progress or subject to revision so I want to stay
in control of it and prevent half-baked copies propagating (Laura's
position, and one that applies to some of my stuff).
5. This belongs in a particular context provided by the file it comes
from and it would be doing the world a musical disservice to
distribute it without that contextual information (the story with
almost all of the material on my website).
6. The point of posting this tune on the web is as an advertising
freebie to sell my CDs or get bookings for my artists (this is
why Paul Cranford has ABCs on his site).
7. This tune is just plain wrong but it throws up some neat bugs in
the ABC spec or in ABC software (again, I've done that).
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