[Dixielandjazz] wonderful

[Richard Broadie]

---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hoog, Steve" <Steve.Hoog at rockhurst.edu>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 6:38 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] wonderful

<<<You're stealing from me.  You're stealing from the future of recorded
music.
Sure, the music industry has screwed up royally, and royalties, by adopting
a head-in-the-sand attitude toward technolgical realities.  Sure, ASCAP has
a well-deserved reputation for thuggery.  And, yeah, the whole copyright
extension thing smacks of payola.  Welcome to America.
Does that mean you're right to try and circumvent the "proper" channels?
Does that mean you're right to take money out of the pockets of those that
are trying to work within the system?  >>>

******************************************************

What the hell are you talking about, Steve?

Steve, I was forced to shut down my business operation at a personal cost of
many thousands of dollars before I ever had a chance to "steal" more than a
few dollars in the US from my work in the UK.  If theft is going on, it's
never been on my part.  I'm not interested in selling anything that might be
illegal.

Living in America, I lack the legal capacity to fulfill any of the dreams I
had when I started in the recording industry.  My goals were simple:  Make
the music sound as good as possible and get it into distribution so that it
can be preserved and influence future generations that may wish to emulate
it.  If our music is dying, one reason it's because much of it is simply
"out of print" and will never become available.

I was to get paid for my work in England by importing CDs to sell in
America.  At the time, I wasn't aware of the difference in performance
rights in the UK vis-a-vis the USA.    If you wish to accuse anyone of
stealing, Steve,  it's the Europeans and others who sell our US product
under laws that provide no payment for performers, producers, etc.   But
then again, this is legal stealing according to their law.

Incidentally, Steve, if you want to rip any of the CDS I engineered,  go
ahead.  I have no royalties, no profits or anything you can do that would
harm me in any manner.  If you like you can burn a few copies for me, too.

Heres a thought:

If our music has been left to die it's partially because there are countless
"vaults" in the world containing much of the best OKOM music that's ever
been performed.  And this music will never leave the vaults!  This is a
simple statement of fact. The owners of the music that you wish to be
protected have no interest in releasing anything because the see no
potientil for making a significant profit.

What is best for our music, anyway?  - to have everything absolutely correct
under the law, or to have bootleg recordings of performances that otherwise
would crumble to dust in the vaults of those who legally own it and can care
less.  Keep in mind here, Steve.  I'm not a bootleger.

I might add that after RIAA shut me down, my work on the AVID label could be
found on the shelves of the Wherehouse and Tower records for many months.
Isn't it amazing that my few thousand CDs were such a threat to the music
industry, but the big guys with lots of lawyers somehow have far more
"rights" than me?

Steve, the only kind of theft I do these days is to rarely download out of
print mp3s, copy them and give them to friends.  I live in a world where my
patents have been stolen by those who have 400 lawyers to respond to any
suit I may consider initiating, have had songs stolen, with modest changes
that have sold well, and have been ripped off for more than $100,000 by a
former employee who sued me.  I won the case.  He filed bankruptcy.  I was
required, by the law to pay my lawyers more than $100,000 as a consequence
of a lawsuit that was absolutely with out merit.  That action put the coffin
nail into my business as it landed me in the hospital with severe cardiac
conditions.  Who knows, my current battle with cancer could also be a
consequence of this stressful situation.

To put it simply, Steve,  I know about theft, Steve, but I'm not the bad
guy!  Inci

Dick B


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hoog, Steve" <Steve.Hoog at rockhurst.edu>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 6:38 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] wonderful


Simply wonderful.

No wonder this music has been allowed to die.  No wonder the world is in
such a state of stink.

The answer to the high crimes, political corruption, and questionable legal
practices of ASCAP and the RIAA, which have done absolutely nothing to help
composers, is to go underground and obtain music without paying.

Just great.

So, then, Dick, what if I want to start scamming your produced discs from
England?  Assuming that they're still available in retail circles, at least,
that's going to cost you a little bit of money.  Not from ASCAP or RIAA
either, since they're British discs.

What about the musicians, the actual performers, who make a little bit of
cash from sales?  (well, if they've covered their own asses legally)  What
about the Trust Fund?  Oh, that's the Union, another scam group.

You're stealing from me.  You're stealing from the future of recorded music.
Sure, the music industry has screwed up royally, and royalties, by adopting
a head-in-the-sand attitude toward technolgical realities.  Sure, ASCAP has
a well-deserved reputation for thuggery.  And, yeah, the whole copyright
extension thing smacks of payola.  Welcome to America.
Does that mean you're right to try and circumvent the "proper" channels?
Does that mean you're right to take money out of the pockets of those that
are trying to work within the system?

And we mourn the dearth of commercially available OKOM recordings.  No
wonder.

It's my opinion, and I'm stickin' with it.  It scares me to think that I may
be in the minority.

steve




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hoog, Steve" <Steve.Hoog at rockhurst.edu>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 6:38 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] wonderful


Simply wonderful.

No wonder this music has been allowed to die.  No wonder the world is in
such a state of stink.

The answer to the high crimes, political corruption, and questionable legal
practices of ASCAP and the RIAA, which have done absolutely nothing to help
composers, is to go underground and obtain music without paying.

Just great.

So, then, Dick, what if I want to start scamming your produced discs from
England?  Assuming that they're still available in retail circles, at least,
that's going to cost you a little bit of money.  Not from ASCAP or RIAA
either, since they're British discs.

What about the musicians, the actual performers, who make a little bit of
cash from sales?  (well, if they've covered their own asses legally)  What
about the Trust Fund?  Oh, that's the Union, another scam group.

You're stealing from me.  You're stealing from the future of recorded music.
Sure, the music industry has screwed up royally, and royalties, by adopting
a head-in-the-sand attitude toward technolgical realities.  Sure, ASCAP has
a well-deserved reputation for thuggery.  And, yeah, the whole copyright
extension thing smacks of payola.  Welcome to America.
Does that mean you're right to try and circumvent the "proper" channels?
Does that mean you're right to take money out of the pockets of those that
are trying to work within the system?

And we mourn the dearth of commercially available OKOM recordings.  No
wonder.

It's my opinion, and I'm stickin' with it.  It scares me to think that I may
be in the minority.

steve





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