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astrakhan
QUOTE(Christian @ Feb 10 2006, 06:48 AM) *

Hi guys, I have a question. I actually just burned my first cd today. This summer I plan to start working on my diploma and I wanted a cd of just the pieces that will be part of my program, which of course, is impossible to buy, and must be custom made. (RCM does not offer any such cd, as the diploma level syllabus enables us to choose from hundreds of pieces and make our own program). I also wanted my teacher to have the same cd, because she has never taught my pieces before, save one. So two of my friends emailed me the 9 pieces I needed. I used itunes to burn them. After reading this, what I did was very illegal, no? So what I should have done then, is spend a couple hundred dollars and buy a whack of cds to get the one piece off each one that I need, right? But then would it still be legal for me to take those cds and make my own by taking bits and pieces from each one? I'm confused and I'm feeling guilty. To give every one the royalties and whatnot that they deserve (even though no one is still alive except maybe 2), should I go and buy the cds and stick them on the shelf? Ack, what does everyone think?


Hi Christian, just muse this over the next time you feel guilty... not a penny of the roylties from Verdi's work (just think of all those operas for a start, day in, day out, the world over...) goes to his estate, but to the record company. I'm sure he'd be very proud.

QUOTE(Christian @ Feb 10 2006, 06:48 AM) *

Hi guys, I have a question. I actually just burned my first cd today. This summer I plan to start working on my diploma and I wanted a cd of just the pieces that will be part of my program, which of course, is impossible to buy, and must be custom made. (RCM does not offer any such cd, as the diploma level syllabus enables us to choose from hundreds of pieces and make our own program). I also wanted my teacher to have the same cd, because she has never taught my pieces before, save one. So two of my friends emailed me the 9 pieces I needed. I used itunes to burn them. After reading this, what I did was very illegal, no? So what I should have done then, is spend a couple hundred dollars and buy a whack of cds to get the one piece off each one that I need, right? But then would it still be legal for me to take those cds and make my own by taking bits and pieces from each one? I'm confused and I'm feeling guilty. To give every one the royalties and whatnot that they deserve (even though no one is still alive except maybe 2), should I go and buy the cds and stick them on the shelf? Ack, what does everyone think?


BTW yes it would be legal.
SirPrancealot
QUOTE(Christian @ Feb 10 2006, 05:48 AM) *

Hi guys, I have a question. I actually just burned my first cd today. This summer I plan to start working on my diploma and I wanted a cd of just the pieces that will be part of my program, which of course, is impossible to buy, and must be custom made. (RCM does not offer any such cd, as the diploma level syllabus enables us to choose from hundreds of pieces and make our own program). I also wanted my teacher to have the same cd, because she has never taught my pieces before, save one. So two of my friends emailed me the 9 pieces I needed. I used itunes to burn them. After reading this, what I did was very illegal, no? So what I should have done then, is spend a couple hundred dollars and buy a whack of cds to get the one piece off each one that I need, right? But then would it still be legal for me to take those cds and make my own by taking bits and pieces from each one? I'm confused and I'm feeling guilty. To give every one the royalties and whatnot that they deserve (even though no one is still alive except maybe 2), should I go and buy the cds and stick them on the shelf? Ack, what does everyone think?


you can get blank cds for 'music use' or audio.
they come slightly dearer than ordinary data cdr blanks but you prepay a royalty that allows you to make a legal copy for your personal use.

you have to think longer term. if everyone copies [classical] performances, record co. revenues will drop and the companies will just stop recording them.

so you can do it legally but with these audio cds.
Trebor
Are there any legal downloading sites (where you pay a small fee per song) which you can download classical music from?
crazy_purple_piano_freak
QUOTE(Trebor @ Feb 11 2006, 08:28 PM) *

Are there any legal downloading sites (where you pay a small fee per song) which you can download classical music from?

You mean copyrighted classical music like Einaudi? unsure.gif
musicbox
I didn't actually know Limewire was illegal until a few weeks ago.
neil.clarinet
QUOTE(crazy_purple_piano_freak @ Feb 11 2006, 09:32 PM) *

QUOTE(Trebor @ Feb 11 2006, 08:28 PM) *

Are there any legal downloading sites (where you pay a small fee per song) which you can download classical music from?

You mean copyrighted classical music like Einaudi? unsure.gif


I'm sure there are somewhere. Don't know any though. I'm a shop-CD person.
YetAnotherPianist
If anyone does it, I suspect Naxos will be first. They already have their entire catalogue available to listen to online through Naxos Music Library, a service to which institutions and music professionals can subscribe. The logical extension of this would be to offer a similar non-subscription service on a pay-per-track-downloaded basis. 50p a track, or £5 a CD, something like that. Given they have their entire catalogue on servers ready to go, it wouldn't even be hard work for them to set it up.
snuglivixen
Here's a link that may cover what you want :

online music stores

This has online stores that are pay per download, or subscribe. I've NOT looked into any of them, so make sure you check them out first
jod
Burning a CD for study purposes only then destroying it when the purpose you have recorded it for is over (to the best of my knowlege) is ok. But I don't get it. I recently purchased the ABRSM Grade 8 pieces CD. Its is very useful, but as far as the Bach Partita is concerned, I would want to listen to ther people play it too.

My approach to learning a piece is to spend time with the score first. I get to know it, get to know how I react to the piece from the dots alone before listening to a professional recording. Then I buy it, or get it out of my local library.

It's great to hear a good performance, but I often find myself disagreeing with so many things, that those reactions are as valid as incorporating the good.

There is nothing that beats hearing a live performance though.

Naxos CDs are cheap, and listening to the whole cd and not, for example just the allemande form Bach's Partita in D, contextualises things.

It needn't cost a fortune, but it is better to obtain music legally.
Dangermouse
I trust Lobo were not too offended (I'm assuming from your post that you are plural) at my illegal flaming. Indeed, I would strongly urge those who were offended in the six month period since the posting of my hate mail to immediately contact the Forum administrators and have me immediately banned.

Lobo have sussed me out, I am actually a closet pirate and have illegally distributed and shared tens of thousands of pounds worth of illegal cd rips of Masses by Guillaume de Machaut. I also have the complete season of 'New insights into the early Ars Nova'; NB not the rock group for those unfamiliar with 14th Century Renaissance movements. All my illegal files can be freely downloaded from lobotomisedpostings.com

Happy illegal peer to peer networking

Dangermouse
crazy cow
QUOTE(Dangermouse @ Feb 16 2006, 12:28 AM) *

lobotomisedpostings.com



disappointing - i was hoping you'd at least got a joke site! but no, my computer doesn't like that link... hahaha i'll have to try and find a joke one!
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