[78-L] copyright

[Kristjan Saag]

Jack Palmer wrote:


> I'm sorry Kristjan but you are not selling me.  I still prefer to buy my
> music in a store.  I guess I'm still a Luddite.
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And I'd like to buy my music on shellac or vinyl in nice little shops with 
soft lightening and cozy armchairs in listening booths. But the music 
industry doesn't care about us minorities. Its purpose is to make money. 
That's also why you don't hear Jo Stafford on moderate volume when you enter 
the big record store that remains. It's still more profitable for it to pull 
a thousand kids a day (instead of 5000 five years ago) with Eminem than to 
pull a hundred granddads with Bix and Benny. The industry has made mistakes, 
but there's a limit even to their mistakes.
As for CD's: I think the format will survive for some time, thanks to 
internationally large musical minorities and thanks to internet, which has 
facilitated worldwide distribution of odd titles. Specialist stores may also 
survive in larger cities.
But, whether we like it or not, we have to face the changes that are taking 
place and, instead of complaining, try to influence the agents on different 
levels of the music industry to do a good job. We can do it as customers, 
but also as professionals, finding new ways to produce, reproduce, market 
and sell our music.
I'm surprised that so few list members have tried to see the possibilities 
in the present situation. If we don't we might miss the train.
I'd rather buy a new good digital compilation of 1930's British Dance Music, 
engineered by David, Alan or Norman and with a first class booklet in pdf 
format, than no such compilation at all. That's what's gonna happen if we, 
the potential customers, boycott the new medium. That strategy has never 
been successful.
Kristjan