John Chambers scribbled: > ...One of the effects of things like ABC on the Internet will be to > strengthen the position of traditional music. The world's archives > are moving to the Net quickly now, and we are reaching the point > that a lot of people use it as their first source of > information. If I'm looking for a tune, I'm more likely to use one > that I find than one that I don't find. Since there's pressure to not > put new music on the Net, I'm more likely to find older music... > ...people using the Net to find tunes are less likely to find his > compositions than they are to find the trad tunes that he published. > Yet another in a long list of examples of why the current concept of > "intellectual property" is doing more harm than good... I may be wrong, but you seem to be implying that if a tune isn't available free on the web it won't spread. I don't think that's the case at all; great tunes exist and proliferate because they're great tunes, and spread from musician to musician because they hear them, either in person, or because a musician has recorded them. If someone doesn't learn a tune because they can't find it in ABC it's their loss - the tune is still going to be played by the musicians who take the time to sit down and learn it. The fact that it hasn't been notated won't stop a good tune. -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
