Comments on: Australian Production of "Company" almost shut-down by an unhappy Stephen Sondheim http://firemark.com/2007/07/21/australian-production-of-company-almost-shut-down-by-an-unhappy-stephen-sondheim/ Theatre, Film, TV & New Media Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:55:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: eileen http://firemark.com/2007/07/21/australian-production-of-company-almost-shut-down-by-an-unhappy-stephen-sondheim/comment-page-1/#comment-1889 eileen Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:16:07 +0000 http://theatrelawyer.com/2007/07/21/australian-production-of-company-almost-shut-down-by-an-unhappy-stephen-sondheim/#comment-1889 WTF???? This is madness! Music is a gift of creativity meant to be shared and kept alive and passed on and re-created in new form. Music is the Universal Language of the soul, Language is not licenced when shared so why would music be? Poetry or novels when read more than once by the original purchaser of the piece is not liscenced, the creation of a new tax law that is read and distributed nationally does not require a liscence (why not?) The burdon of proof of ownership should be solely with the fee imposers when imposing fees for all public sharing of music. The fact that it doesnt have to be proven to be ownership of a particular entity is outrageous! That would mean that if i own a few publishing companies and there are people reading works that are of unclear origin that I should receive a liscencing fee just in case I may own it.....Really??? WTH??? WTF???? This is madness! Music is a gift of creativity meant to be shared and kept alive and passed on and re-created in new form. Music is the Universal Language of the soul, Language is not licenced when shared so why would music be? Poetry or novels when read more than once by the original purchaser of the piece is not liscenced, the creation of a new tax law that is read and distributed nationally does not require a liscence (why not?)
The burdon of proof of ownership should be solely with the fee imposers when imposing fees for all public sharing of music. The fact that it doesnt have to be proven to be ownership of a particular entity is outrageous! That would mean that if i own a few publishing companies and there are people reading works that are of unclear origin that I should receive a liscencing fee just in case I may own it…..Really??? WTH???

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