On 5/23/05 7:45 AM, "Dave Doty" <davedoty@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Tony Baechler <tb@baechler.net>
The other is the actual MIDI performances. Almost all performers copyright their MIDI files, using the argument that they are an original performance of a classical work.
I'm not sure how MIDI works. If you give two MIDI composers the exact same sheet music, would there be differences in the files they generated? In other words, does they basically just enter the sheet music and a music file comes out, or is there a task of arrangement that produces a unique file no one else could create exactly on their own?
Most musicians I know who create midi (all for their own projects) use a midi keyboard to capture a performance (which, in my view, is an interpretation) of a given work. I don't think I know anyone who creates MIDI files from public domain sheet music for online distribution, so I don't know if my musician friends are exceptions and not the rule. Alex. -- http://www.telltaleweekly.org - Funding a Free Audiobook Library http://www.alexwilson.com - Alex Wilson Studios LLC