{"id":26408,"date":"2019-07-03T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26408"},"modified":"2019-08-10T18:15:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T22:15:50","slug":"intellectual-property-klez-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/03\/intellectual-property-klez-style\/","title":{"rendered":"INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY,
KLEZ-STYLE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I followed<\/strong> <\/span>klezmer clarinetist Sid Beckerman around KlezKamp — <\/span>the\u00a0annual music conference in the Catskills. Sid talked to me.\u00a0Big deal?\u00a0Yes. Sid was paid staff, and I was just a paying student. Staff had a lot of demands on their time.<\/p>\n

Sid had no ego. Sid was \u201cdiscovered\u201d by klez revivalists and made his first record at age 70. (He died in 2007 at 88.) Sid had a proprietary book of his own tunes. The book was nicknamed \u201cthe sheets,\u201d short for \u201csheet music.\u201d Sid\u2019s sheets were guarded — quarantined — by pianist Pete Sokolow<\/span>, who had transcribed the tunes.<\/p>\n

\"Sid

Sid Beckerman 1998<\/p><\/div>\n

I wanted a copy of the sheets, so I gave Pete a xerox of a 1938 magazine article about \u201cBay Mir Bistu Sheyn,\u201d hoping to get in Pete’s good graces. Pete was not impressed. He said, \u201cThe sheets<\/em>? What sheets?\u00a0I\u2019m so busy.\u00a0I\u2019m working up an arrangement for fifteen people.\u00a0What did Sid say?\u201d<\/p>\n

Sid said, \u201cWhat<\/em> transcriptions?\u201d<\/p>\n

I offered Sid $20 for the sheets, which he turned down.<\/p>\n

A year<\/strong><\/span> later, 1991, the sheets came out as the Klezmer Plus! Folio<\/em> <\/em>by Tara Publications. Everybody could now buy the sheets. Pete and Sid had just been protecting their intellectual property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I followed klezmer clarinetist Sid Beckerman around KlezKamp — the\u00a0annual music conference in the Catskills. Sid talked to me.\u00a0Big deal?\u00a0Yes. Sid was paid staff, and I was just a paying student. Staff had a lot of demands on their time. Sid had no ego. Sid was \u201cdiscovered\u201d by klez revivalists and made his first record […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26408"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26704,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26408\/revisions\/26704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}