Richard Walker wrote:
I wonder if this is indicative only of the music industry, or if any parallels exist. I wonder if... say... the movie industry would object if, someone purchased a movie (CD) and watched (listened) to it over and over and wrote down (notated) the dialog (tune/song) into a script (score/tab/abc/etc), and then used it to put on a small not for profit or for profit performance (performance/session/etc), or just used it for personal uses (practicing).I love America too -- especially the ability to comment, from time to time, that everything isn't perfect AND that a few items might want to be closely watched.
ABC is a format used to notate tunes. Would it come as a
surprise if a few of those corporations with their own
agendas attempted to only allow public domain tunes (if they
haven't been able to place those under their control) to be
so notated? I know they have already attempted this with
midi files.
I've never heard of such a thing being objected to (if someone would wish to do it). It seems that the only forms of intellectual property that anyone is fascist over is music.
Written text, movies, music, software, etc... they object only if you duplicate the original and then distribute it. I'm not making much sense here...
One question regarding your post.... isn't MIDI something that is codified with hardware and patents and organizational inclusions. There's money there to come after in one form or another... ABC so far has very little if any truly commercial software (I'm not including shareware) and such to codify it, and as far as I know, there's no hardware engines that understand it as a control... There's no big software or hardware producer codifying it and making money off of it to serve as a jugular for our fanged friends in the RIAA and like.
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