A composer notices that a teenager is sharing PDFs of his sheet music, asks her to stop… and ends up engaged in a charming back-and-forth on copyright law and the economics of creative work.
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For some reason, realizing this was from almost exactly a decade ago, give or take 24 hours, made this even more pointed to me...
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Wow, he wrote in her name as Brenna in the exchange. A subtle, hilarious detail
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This was quite funny.
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And by the way, “Stars and the Moon” from *Songs for a New World* is a really great song.
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Great share, thanks!
The link he shared at the end seems to be failing with some 500 error, so I've digged a link from the Internet archive, in case anyone is interested in reading that too: web.archive.org/web/2016110806
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Thank you for finding this!!
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1/ What would fair payments on digital media look like?
1) They are made with huge effort
2) But they are free to reproduce
ebooks could be hoarded and shared in millions, but where's the utility in that? pay-per-word-read could be a fair way to exchange value for value.
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2/ Or a Netflix-subscription model for a library of books, like Safari Books Online, is a powerful way to search through a huge library of books and access knowledge legally. Both convenient and a huge value-add: it is not just a digital copy of a single book - but millions.
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