Message-Id: <199810091842.OAA16381@xkey.com>
Subject: Re: minstrel: filk, theft, taste and other points of argument
To: dariusobells@hotmail.com (Donald Riney)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 14:42:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Greg Lindahl" <lindahl@pbm.com>
Cc: minstrel@pbm.com
In-Reply-To: <19981009180914.21625.qmail@hotmail.com> from "Donald Riney" at Oct 9, 98 11:09:14 am
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> Without 
> learning peices writen and recorded profesionaly Many SCA Perfoemers 
> would never have anything to sing.

You could always sing out-of-copyright period pieces, and pieces for
which the owner has given permission. We had the same problem with
dance music, and I solved it by creating a collection of
freely-copyable, freely-performable-within-the-SCA dance music.

> Shall we then come down on our new 
> performers for this practice and drive them out of the game entirely? 
> Some where in this conversation there must be a middle ground.

No one advocated coming down on anyone. I was just explaining what the
law says. Free legal advice from a non-lawyer isn't worth anything.

-- gb

[ p.s. Don't quote the entire message that you're replying to, please ]

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