need a private publisher for my book

[relayerbob]

14. Actually, no, not correct

But no one is stupid enough to sue over you singing it to your friends. You *copy* that song and send it to your friends- that is illegal. If you are in a band and you sing to your 10,000 friends in a stadium, best have your licenses paid up.

The fact that people “share” art over the phone doesn’t make it right, and I know hundreds of musicians who have had their preferred livelihood stripped away from them, because people don’t buy their art for a buck, but would rather share it over the phone.

A better analogy - you build a beautiful bench for your front porch. Some stranger driving by likes it so much, he chooses to liberate it from your porch and take it to his house for people to enjoy, because it’s such a wonderful thing. Is that right? No, it’s called stealing, and is exactly the same thing.

Now, Picasso may have been ok with giving stuff away, but I doubt it, since he became a multimillionaire, so comparing selling as many paintings as possible (50,000) is not the same as making one, and having it copied and given away to 50,000 people. He was more than happy to let everyone share his art, as long as they purchased it from him.

Art is an artists lifeblood, if you like it or the person, why would you feel it’s ok to deprive them of that? As I said, both and *ethically* wrong.