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If the fees are affordable for the corps to arrange, perform, and record the music then cool. If the price hike is too much or out of reason then we may see more original compositions, which might not be so bad.  On the other hand, the industry and the composers have typically been pretty good at coming up with reasonable rates for youth arts/performing arts orgs. What DCI and its' member corps have done for the band publishing industry cannot be overlooked. This includes marching band, concert band, and jazz ensemble. 

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54 minutes ago, jwillis35 said:

If the fees are affordable for the corps to arrange, perform, and record the music then cool. If the price hike is too much or out of reason then we may see more original compositions, which might not be so bad.  On the other hand, the industry and the composers have typically been pretty good at coming up with reasonable rates for youth arts/performing arts orgs. What DCI and its' member corps have done for the band publishing industry cannot be overlooked. This includes marching band, concert band, and jazz ensemble. 

Yes- I've felt that the recording industry gets this. They want some money, and realize if it's too much, the source dries up and they've killed it. Better to make something than nothing at all.

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What will this mean?  Corps using more music in the public domain?

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1 hour ago, HockeyDad said:

What will this mean?  Corps using more music in the public domain?

Yes, that's also been hinted at as well. Checked, 1922 or earlier are in public domain now, and January 1, 2019, 1923 will, etc.

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This bill will have absolutely no impact on arranging and performance rights. It's legislation aimed at changing how payouts are made for playing and streaming the original recordings of music. It *may* have an impact on synch, mechanical, or streaming rights, but since the music performed by DCI corps is not the original recordings, that impact is very much up for debate.

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4 minutes ago, skevinp said:

Of course, usually, as a copywriter who writes copy you won't own the copyright for the copy you write.

 Thats right.

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If modern copyright law existed c. 1610, Shakespeare could never have written his plays.

(Almost all of them borrow heavily from earlier works.)

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3 hours ago, N.E. Brigand said:

If modern copyright law existed c. 1610, Shakespeare could never have written his plays.

(Almost all of them borrow heavily from earlier works.)

Copyright doesn't prevent you from  using other people's works.  It requires you to obtain permission from the author (or from someone who obtained the rights from the author) for works that are not yet in the public domain.  So even for any such works in which a copyright would have been in force, the Bard could have obtained permission from anyone willing to give it, in exchange for a piece of the action, for being made more famous by virtue of a known brand and/or better presentation, and so forth.  So my guess is most of his work would have been OK, and any that was not might have been replaced by something as good or better, especially with the incentives others would have had for sharing.

I doubt he could have staged them if today's fire codes were in place either, but that doesn't mean fire codes are bad. 

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10 hours ago, N.E. Brigand said:

If modern copyright law existed c. 1610, Shakespeare could never have written his plays.

 

 .....And with that unimaginable outcome,  most all of my  young English & Drama teachers, would  most certainly have been susceptible to an early death.

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