3530  Ethics, MP3s, File Sharing and Restoring Tango Classics

Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 21:21:16 +0000
From: Paulo Ramirez <pauloramirez15@YAHOO.COM.AR>
Subject: Ethics, MP3s, File Sharing and Restoring Tango Classics

The Ethics, MP3s, File Sharing and Restoring Tango Classics



For the last decade D.J.s and tango aficionados worldwide have been

bringing scratchy tango CDs to life through love and days of work. Some

D.J.s sell them for a minimal fee; others give them away for free. Most

pass on the cleaned piece of music toD.J.'s in Buenos Aires and around

the world.

Sharing tango songs among friends is nothing to be ashamed of. On the

contrary, it's called friendship. Whether I lend the odd CD or convert

my favorite songs to MP3 for my Ipod or place my favorite songs on

Bear Share or Kazaa only helps the growth of tango worldwide.

Why not? CD's bought in stores are fabulously expensive. Most of the

world's tango community is NOT rich. The songs placed on these sites

inspire tango dancers. Counting all the arrangements, versions, and

orchestras playing tango music there must be at least 100,000 songs.

Non-tango dancers buy Eighty percent of all tango music sold the world-over.

It is legal, helpful and ethical to sell commercial Argentine Tango music C.D.s on a website

at competitive prices. Putting entire Argentine Tango CD's on those sites is not acceptable

from my point of view. There are royalties to be paid to the companies and composers.

Some entrepreneurs now transfer tango music from old 33 LPs, selling the CDs worldwide,

charging record-store prices without requesting rights or providing royalties from the composers and interpreters or

their families nor from the Argentine and Spanish record companies who spent a fortune to produce them.

The sound is bonito.

The problem is they actually believe they created the music, when in fact they have simply copied it.

Adding insult to injury D.J.s

in Argentina as well as ordinary porteqos are being denied access.

This I don't understand. These entrepreneurs love Argentine tango yet they are take from the very founders of Argentine tango, guarding jealously what has been lost in Argentina due to the banning of tango in the 30's, 40's, 50's and successive upheavals in

our country. Once again the hard work of the musicians and singers who made Argentine Tango so beautiful is being exploited by individuals for their own glory. We are so tired of this. Are not you?








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