Instead, they are attempting to address a major flaw in our current system: people who want to use creative works in their own projects, but do so legally and with the proper respect to the original creator *and* the performer(s).nnnAs I mentioned before, the near-perpetual copyright world we are living in is making this incredibly difficult: finding easily accessible, high-quality (both in performance and in recording) sources that will not result in a DMCA takedown once you have produced your own derivative work is increasingly a problem.
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So I am entirely sympathetic to the idea that musicians should be able to survive & make a living, especially in the trying times for classical music of today (major orchestra strikes, shut downs, etc.).nnnThat does not change the importance or value of what this Kickstarter is attempting to do – I am not, nor do I believe are they, encouraging people to abandon the support of professional musicians. Many of my friends ended up staying in music, and work in orchestras or in related fields. Just for reference/relevance, I trained as a musician before changing professions. Glenn Gould Explains the Genius of Johann Sebastian Bach (1962)
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Bach’s “Crab Canon” Visualized on a Möbius StripĪ Big Bach Download: All of Bach’s Organ Works for Free Note: If you want to savor the fruits of another Kickstarter campaign, please visit our previous post: The Open Goldberg Variations: J.S. And, of course, we’ll let you know when this project is complete and the public domain recordings are online. Learn more about the Set Chopin Free campaign here. If you contribute to this campaign, you can get some pretty nice-looking gifts, while making your own gift to the cultural commons. Sounds like something our readers can get behind. If the campaign reaches its goal of raising $75,000 (it’s already at $34,748), Musopen will work with talented musicians to “preserve indefinitely and without question everything Chopin created.” They will record performances of 245 Chopin pieces in both 1080p video and 24 bit 192kHz audio, and then release them all into the public domain. We think Chopin deserves better.” That’s how frames its new Kickstarter campaign called Set Chopin Free. His music is well into the public domain, yet most people consume it as if it were still copyrighted: from CDs, iTunes, or Youtube videos (many of which are copyrighted).