On Tuesday, Apr 10, 2007, at 15:53 America/Los_Angeles, Denys Stephens wrote:
> I have a lot of sympathy with your view that > art belongs to everyone,and in that sense we > shouldn't have to pay for it. But Alfonso didn't say that. He said "these books belong to humanity." > But if that's > totally true, shouldn't we all perform for > free and just give away our recordings to people > who like them? The major libraries of the > world surely cost a lot of money to run, I think Alfonso's point is that the libraries are state-funded institutions, which means that they're paid twice, in essence -- once from taxes, and again from user fees -- and the user fees, while an insignificant source of funds for the institution, are high enough to discourage the materials from actually being used. > and > if we pay them for copies of musical sources > they own, are we not helping to preserve them > for the benefit of future generations? - I suppose that's the idea. The question is whether it works that way in practice. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
