[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > Performing rights societies (ASCAP, BMI, PRS ...) own the rights to
> > their members' compositions, so most professional composers cannot
> > contribute to Mutopia. Is (4) pointless, then?
> It's not pointless for composers who don't belong to such societies.
> Are there many?
There are certainly many, the question is how many of their
works are worth performing. A friend working in a music publishing
company told me that since computer typesetting programs (with MIDI
output) become more popular, they receive a lot more music from
amateur composers, which they have to reject. Well, we shouldn't
discuss music quality here. A more important question is what happens
if a young talented composer publishes a number of works at Mutopia
and later gets established and joins a performing rights society?
Are the earlier works still free then?
/Mats
