Ricardo -> RE: Tabbing rules?? (May 28 2013 17:23:30)
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Allow me an example. If on a different Foro someone published an unauthorized transcription of Ricardo's work and he [whom I adore] were upset and asked me to protect his rights, I probably would start a lawsuit and throw salt over the unlawful material !!! Allow? It has infact occured. Dr. Whitehead was "caught" red handed playing my tanguillo "mi copita de jerez". He performed his own transcription, never purchased my version for sale through my site, never the less, a clear violation as I never gave him expressed permission or signed any mechanical liscense agreements. To make it worse, he apparently entered his recorded version (and perhaps his own score) of my work to a competition over seen by Manolo Sanlucar, in the end winning a healthy beca (grant) and opportunities galore to study abroad. Certain source upset or felt the entire thing ridiculous informed that there a good chance that Manolo might have been lead to believe that Dr. Whitehead was in fact the composer, and that the competition was to show case compositional talent, not necessarily playing ability. The Dr. assured me (and oddly as I had not sent any accusation) that he made it quite clear that the work was composed by myself. On the train from Jerez to sevilla I saw an add for cordoba course and saw dr whitehead performing on stage with Manolo and other students, a dream come true for some, and would be a frustrating extra thorn in my side if this were all to turn in to a legal issue of infringment. But here is REALITY. The guy did this on his own, yet he is my student. Even if I didn't not show him how to play THIS piece, it is an honor to me as a FLAMENCO artist that people would want to play ANY of my falsetas. Even he does not have to SAY so loudly from the stage that it is MINE, it's ok. That is way flamenco has always been transmitted. His own students certainly know that the music is not his, and it only matters in the end if they actually care about that. For flamenco music to have continued through so many periods it would need to go through many different interpretors and new creative directions. And lastly, and most important that Dr. Whitehead is a GREAT friend, he's my bro. He can do what EVER THE HELL he wants with my music. After thanking me for inadvertantly helping with his successes he asked he could do for ME. I told him send me some strings, and he did. I hope that the cold universe of the internet does not try to remove from Flamenco guitar, just because of convienience and legality crosspollinations, its essence of traditions being passed on from teacher to student, friends and colleagues to others, with no extra need for protections and compensations. Ricardo
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