[Bards] Hey, I'll tell you stories all day long, no problemo.

[Peter Schorn]

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>Hiya!  I appreciate those who have responded, but I guess I didn't explain 
>myself very well...  *Totally* my bad. :(  Lemme try again:
>
>I am *NOT* looking to create a professional CD of Ansteorran Bards singing 
>and filking and poetry reciting, or whathaveyou.  I am not looking to 
>violate copyright, or record those who don't wish to be recorded, or to
>make anyone unhappy.
>
>What I *AM* trying to accomplish, is to record the more 'commonfolk'
>stories of Ansteorra.  Not bardic circles or Great and Wondrous
>Performances -- but the stories that fighters tell as they're pulling off
>their armor and tossing down a beer, or the stories that get told on the 20
>hour drive to a War, or the stories that are told as folks wash dishes in
>the kitchen, or sit around a fire at 3am.
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...and you can even record them if you have a particular interest in old
guys telling stories of the days when they were young and slim and had all
their hair.  What I *don't* want is for anyone to upload them to the
Internet.  Not even the "no shit, there I was" stories.  

See, this is a nice idea, and I wish you well, and I'm more than happy to
help--up to certain limits.  But I want you to know up front what those
limits are, because they're important.

Copyright aside, anything on the internet is public domain, and I don't want
to someday hear my voice sampled and mixed as part of the sound track to,
say, German scat porn or Jihadi videos or white supremacist propaganda.  You
think it can't happen?  Think about the nature of the Internet.  Nobody's
more than a few clicks away from anything else and even the most innocent
things can be downloaded, modified, and re-uploaded in an entirely
different, often very malign context.  This has already happened with
images: Google "fat chicks in party hats" (but not at work, OK?).

So, listen, record, sure.  Distribute, upload--no.  I wanted to be very
clear on that because if I didn't, the way things work in the SCA, sooner or
later I'd find my voice on the Interttubes because some well-meaning soul
recorded me on their cell's camera at an event and uploaded the stream to
the Web, thinking, "oh, of COURSE he won't mind."

Well, gosh folks, I do.  If that upsets somebody, hey, wow, there's another
upset person on the Internet: I think the backbone servers can handle it.  

Bottom line: I have the right to determine where and how my recorded voice
will be used. Now, you want text?  Text is another matter and far easier.
E-mail me and we'll talk.

"Come, my little songs, let us speak of perfection:
We shall get ourselves rather disliked...

--Ezra Pound
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