Re: [microsound] Intellectual Property

[alex@xxxxxxxx]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Bill Ashline wrote:
> When one goes to a restaurant, the chef doesn't necessarily want to give all 
> his secrets away either.

You get a menu.  You get to see and smell the food as well as eat it.

I mean, you can keep hold of your software, but still give the audience a
deeper insight into the process, by giving them words and visual
representations of the process as well as the sound.

> On the other hand, something seems different with digital equipment--a
> new kind of ethics is in play, and it suggests a different situation
> with regard to the ownership of the media and the sharing of ideas.

Partly because if you buy expensive, new equipment you sound new with
little effort..  But that is to the credit of the manufacturer, not the
artist.

Alex

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