User talk:Nixeagle
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[edit] Your deletion of the Debussy quartet from the article on Chamber music
I disagree with your decision to remove this musical example, for the following reasons:
1. The musical examples in the article - and especially this one - are not mere decoration, but they are there to illustrate important milestones in the history of chamber music. And the Debussy quartet (as the article points out) is perhaps the most pivotal work of chamber music written in the last 120 years, as it heralds the end of tonality as we know it. Removing this example is a substantive deletion of relevant material.
2. As you could see if you read the article carefully, I have made every effort to use free material when it was available. I even enlisted free material - I convinced the Carmel Quartet to release their recordings of key works under a CC license (it wasn't too hard - they are good friends of mine). I used nonfree material only when I couldn't find free material.
3. Whenever I used nonfree material (by linking to YouTube), I linked only to videos that were posted by the performers themselves. There are plenty of recordings on YouTube that people taped from other sources and posted. I never used those, as the actual copyright owners might not agree to the use of their materials on YouTube. However, when a person posts a video of himself performing, it is fair to assume that that person wants other people to view the video. However, just to be sure, in every case where I used a YouTube video, I contacted the poster and received permission.
4. As you know, the subject of linking from Wikipedia to YouTube articles has been discussed often at the village pump, and it is not only not forbidden, but explicitly allowed.
As one who plays and performs myself, I am as sensitive as anyone to the issues of copyright infringement and would never do anything to impinge on the rights of others - certainly not in the Wikipedia. Moreover, I laud Wikipedia's objective of being a repository of free content. I will certainly replace any nonfree example used in any of my articles with a free one if I can find one. In the meantime, however, I believe the links to YouTube are justified and necessary.
If I do not receive a response from you within a couple of days, I will restore the example. --Ravpapa (talk) 05:07, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
