The Sheet Music Industry is Pissed?
Posted on December 9, 2005
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In other news: there actually is a viable sheet music industry. Go figure. And apparently this juggernaut of publishing is spittin’ mad at the web for making song lyrics available. They’re also spittin’ mad at Xerox for inventing the Xerox machine, but presumably they don’t have the cash or the balls to try and take on that windmill: Song sites face legal crackdown.
MPA president Lauren Keiser said he wanted site owners to be jailed.
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Mr Keiser said he did not just want to shut websites and impose fines, saying if authorities can “throw in some jail time I think we’ll be a little more effective”.
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“The Xerox machine was the big usurper of our potential income,” he said. “But now the internet is taking more of a bite out of sheet music and printed music sales so we’re taking a more proactive stance.”
In other news, Mr. Keiser also alluded to pending action against one Johannes Gutenberg for the production of an automated mechanical scribing machine, and one Guglielmo Marconi for making widely available his wireless, ether-based transmission devices stating: “If people hear it they’ll remember it. If they remember it they’ll write it down. If they write it down they’ll give it to someone else and then… anarchy I say, anarchy! Damn you Marconi!”
The music publishing industry gets more and more freakish and weird everyday. I feel for the musicians trapped in the middle.
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