If Brahms was alive today to hear it do you think he'd like it?

[Deimos Anomaly]

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If he could be brought back from the dead now, or it could be sent back to him through time what do you think he'd make of it?

 

[Apophis]

If your post hadn't told me I'd have never known that that had, at one point, been music.

 

[Balrog]

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If he could be brought back from the dead now, or it could be sent back to him through time what do you think he'd make of it?

Brahms, the great master, would hunt down those responsible and kill them all. What a painful abomination!

 

[M'Sharak]

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If he could be brought back from the dead now, or it could be sent back to him through time what do you think he'd make of it?

He'd find a way to blame it on Wagner, I'm quite sure.

Wagner wouldn't have thought very highly of it, either.

 

[Locutus]

Brahms would have probably sued somebody for slander due to his name being listed in the credits.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I'm picturing Brahms as a YouTube commenter now.

I don't really have a joke to go along with that, that was pretty much it. I'm kind of weak on classical composer humor.

Anyway, I think he would be honored that his music has survived the test of time, even if it's been turned into crap on occasion. He'd probably also be fascinated by the internets, and quickly discover the wonders of online porn.

 

[Kryton]

Even LEAH Brahms would be disgustipated.

 

[RJDiogenes]

If he could be brought back from the dead now

If anything can bring him back, this can; on A Mission Of Vengeance From Beyond The Grave, sort of like in an old EC Comic.

Hmm, maybe I'll write that....

 

[mic of orion]

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If he could be brought back from the dead now, or it could be sent back to him through time what do you think he'd make of it?

not sure what this was, was it suppose to be Hungarian Rhapsody .???

if he heard that, he'd sue the twat who dared to abuse his work.

 

[Jadzia]

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If he could be brought back from the dead now, or it could be sent back to him through time what do you think he'd make of it?

I imagine Brahms would be honoured to be remembered; that his music is still being played after all these years. That despite all other advances, the musical sequences he wrote are still chosen and arranged in new formulas; adapted to the modern audience.

I imagine Brahms would be fascinated by the wealth of synthetic instruments and recordings and playback devices available today.

"The world of 2009 is alive with music! Is that a wind instrument, or a string I hear? Is it something new from the East? And how do they play it so fast? Is there more than one operator? ... "

 

[Zulu Romeo]

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As they say in dance lingo, "TUNE!"

If he could be brought back from the dead now, or it could be sent back to him through time what do you think he'd make of it?

Probably the same way that Beethoven might think of this:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9jumopYHTTw

 

[Kryton]

Roll over, Beethoven!

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

If he was still alive, I imagine he would be more interested in our braaaaainnnns than our musical tastes.

 

[Pingfah]

I imagine Brahms would be honoured to be remembered; that his music is still being played after all these years. That despite all other advances, the musical sequences he wrote are still chosen and arranged in new formulas; adapted to the modern audience.

I imagine Brahms would be fascinated by the wealth of synthetic instruments and recordings and playback devices available today.

"The world of 2009 is alive with music! Is that a wind instrument, or a string I hear? Is it something new from the East? And how do they play it so fast? Is there more than one operator? ... "

I agree, but once he had had a chance to listen to the same variety of modern music that we have I believe he would conclude that this rendition of his work is horrible.

 

[Kryton]

If he were alive today, he'd still hold the rights to his material (lifetime + 75 years) so he could strike it down if he didn't care for it.

Or he could make some coin off it.

 

[Jadzia]

i think the wording is from time of death... so if he were brought back to life it wouldn't matter - his claim to copyright would be invalid.

 

[Kryton]

Yeah, tell that to Walt Disney!

 

[Jadzia]

Yeah, tell that to Walt Disney!

There are ways around it.

The public probably don't have copies of the original motion pictures. The Disney company doesn't have to ever broadcast them again, so if nobody has them, they can't be distrubuted, even if the copyright expires.

What they can do is repackage the product, and publish it as a new product. Copyright starts afresh, and will probably fall into the new +110 year band, which takes them into 22nd century.

But I don't know. There are quite a few pre-war videos which are public domain now. I don't see why Disney should have their own special rules.

Public Domain is a good thing.

 

[Kryton]

Disney (the company) changed the concept of "copyright belongs to the holder for his/her life +75 years" by becoming its OWN copyright holder. As such, and as a corporation that isn't likely to EVER outright "die", it owns its materiels in perpetuity. As such other companies have done the same.

The law ain't what it used to be, that's for sure.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

If he were alive today, he'd still hold the rights to his material (lifetime + 75 years) so he could strike it down if he didn't care for it.

Or he could make some coin off it.

Now that's what family estates are there for. Living off past glories indeed...

Actually I don't think Brahms would mind his work being used like this. Then again, I'm not a fan of Brahms man myself (based on a particularly traumatic performance of his German Requiem I once took part in), so I wouldn't really know.