[cc-community] Is it the Music or the Musician?

Shakti S mail at shakti.id.au
Sun Dec 23 09:21:27 EST 2007


	I wish to explore an aspect of copyright that I wonder if  anyone  
has ever thought about. That is, that without a musician to perform a  
composition, a piece of music is just dots on paper. Any musician who  
plays a piece of music makes it alive for that moment in time, with  
an expression exclusive to that moment and everyone present. I am  
talking here about the removal of the performer from the listener.  
The operative word here is "listening", and it refers to the holistic  
significance and benefits of this term relating to the playing and  
the listening in that moment.
	In the light of global warming, reducing our footprint on the earth,  
and the end of fossil fuels, I feel it important to reconsider the  
organic nature of live performance, as opposed to the commercial  
aspect of music consumption. Also to consider the equity problem of  
the lack of compensation for the value that people add to society by  
their efforts. I wish to suggest that recorded music in public places  
displaces someone who may want to play music. Also the fact that  
overexposed recorded music in general creates a disconnect to the  
mutual benefit of the live performance.
	I want to know if it is possible to make some sort of collective  
copyright  to the sound of music that should belong to anyone who  
plays music at a professional level. Then this can apply to music  
played in public places. I just think that the Music in public places  
does not reflect its true cost. If we look at our activities in terms  
of needs and satisfiers, then the need to have music to listen to (in  
the case of musac) hinders the need to play music. When one hinders  
the need to play music there are social costs in the lack of an  
opportunity to express, to find one's useful place in society. This  
cost is expressed in the use of drugs replacing a persons potential  
to achieve anything.
	I am interested to see if anyone can see this point of view.


Shakti

www.shakti.id.au




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