{"page":"\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/resources-c03aa079.css\" /\u003e\n\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/lp_boclips_stylesheets-517835be.css\" media=\"all\" /\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-title='Broadway composers unite with campaign to end sheet music piracy' data-url='/boclips/videos/5c54ba62d8eafeecae11d180' data-video-url='/boclips/videos/5c54ba62d8eafeecae11d180' id='bo_player_modal'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='boclips-resource-page modal-dialog panel-container'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='react-notifications-root'\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-header'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-type'\u003e\n\u003ci aria-hidden='true' class='fai fa-regular fa-circle-play'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\nVideo\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch1 class='rp-title' id='video-title'\u003e\nBroadway composers unite with campaign to end sheet music piracy\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eBy now, some young musical theatre fans have received an email from Stephen Schwartz asking them to stop illegally downloading sheet music from any of his shows. Or anyone's show, for that matter.The award-winning composer of the...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eBy now, some young musical theatre fans have received an email from Stephen Schwartz asking them to stop illegally downloading sheet music from any of his shows. Or anyone's show, for that matter.\u003cbr/\u003eThe award-winning composer of the Broadway smash, \"Wicked,\" wants people to know that it's stealing.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I just went to the first of the websites to which I'm going to be emailing people who have been downloading and I typed my name in to see how many individual pieces of sheet music were available for free of mine - over 11,000,\" Schwartz told the Associated Press Monday at an anti-piracy awareness event hosted by the Dramatists Guild.\u003cbr/\u003e\"That's a lot of free music out there that I don't see a penny of - not just me, but whoever is the publisher. After a while, it really interferes with one's ability to make a living. It's just not fair.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe event proved to be a summit of musical theatre composers that included Jason Robert Brown, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Amanda Green, Stephen Flaherty, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, and others. \u003cbr/\u003eMany of them sat in a room across the hall from the organization's headquarters hunched over computers, writing letters to offenders as a projection screen showed the organization's Twitter activity.\u003cbr/\u003eThe idea of reaching out to sheet music pirates began a few years ago, when composer and Dramatists Guild member Georgia Stitt found out during a talk with students that her husband's sheet music was being illegally downloaded. \u003cbr/\u003eStitt is married to \"Bridges of Madison County\" composer Jason Robert Brown.\u003cbr/\u003eBrown took to a letter-writing campaign to ask illegal downloaders to stop.\u003cbr/\u003e\"About three or four years ago, when Georgia had told me about it and I got on the internet, I saw a whole list, about three or four hundred people who were all trading my sheet music that day, and I just said, 'You know what? I'm just going to write them,'\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile that doesn't entirely solve the problem, Brown feels getting an email from a Broadway composer carries enormous clout.\u003cbr/\u003e\"If Stephen Sondheim had written to me when I was 20 years old, when I was 16 years old, I would have had an aneurism,\" Brown said. \u003cbr/\u003e\"That's enormous. It's more that there's just a reason to take somebody seriously. You're not going to listen to your mother about it, you're not going to listen to your teachers about it, but maybe you'll listen to someone who you respect when they say to you, 'This hurts me. This hurts the community. This hurts the work that you want to be doing ultimately.\"\u003cbr/\u003eLin-Manuel Miranda, composer of the Tony-winning, \"In the Heights,\" feels most of the people illegally downloading music are unaware of the impact on the artist.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Musical theatre artists, we thrive on productions and we thrive on sheet music. That's actually our bread and butter,\" he said. \u003cbr/\u003e\"We're not ranked iTunes artists. We create for live productions, so we actually suffer more than most in this era where you can download everything with one sort of click in BitTorrent.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe Anti-Piracy Committee was founded in 2010. Since then, it has produced numerous resources for writers, as well as \"Someone Wrote That Song,\" a musical PSA with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Craig Carnelia.\u003cbr/\u003eThe committee has not assigned a dollar value to the sheet music illegally traded, but feels it's significantly impacting the livelihoods of composers and lyricists. \u003cbr/\u003eSheet music generally sells for $5 five to $10. But some sell as low as 99 cents.\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, 21 April 2014\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of group posing at Dramatist's Guild Anti-Piracy event\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of Stephen Schwartz typing\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close up of Stephen Schwartz \u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of Stephen Schwartz talking to reporter\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Schwartz/Music Composer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I just went to the first of the websites to which I'm going to be emailing people who have been downloading and I typed my name in to see how many individual pieces of sheet music were available for free of mine - over 11,000. That's a lot of free music out there that I don't see a penny of - not just me, but whoever is the publisher. After a while, it really interferes with one's ability to make a living. It's just not fair.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of Jason Robert Brown\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jason Robert Brown/Music Composer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well actually, I did that. I think that was sort of the way this all started. About three or four years ago, when Georgia had told me about it and I got on the internet, I saw a whole list, about three or four hundred people who were all trading my sheet music that day, and I just said, 'You know what? I'm just going to write them.' and so I wrote to one and I wrote to another.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Medium of Jason Robert Brown\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jason Robert Brown/Music Composer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It has enormous clout. Listen, if Stephen Sondheim had written to me when I was 20 years old, when I was 16 years old, I would have had an aneurism. That's enormous. It's more that there's just a reason to take somebody seriously. You're not going to listen to your mother about it, you're not going to listen to your teachers about it, but maybe you'll listen to someone who you respect when they say to you, 'This hurts me. This hurts the community. This hurts the work that you want to be doing ultimately.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of Lin-Manuel Miranda\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Lin-Manuel Miranda/Music Composer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Musical theater artists, we thrive on productions and we thrive on sheet music. That's actually our bread and butter. We're not ranked iTunes artists. We create for live productions, so we actually suffer more than most in this era where you can download everything with one sort of click in BitTorrent.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Tight on computer\u003cbr/\u003e13. Tight on guidelines\u003cbr/\u003e14. Various of people working on computers\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide of Amanda Green\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE (English) Amanda Green/Music Composer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think so. I really think so. I think the more attention that's paid, and the more we refuse to be quiet about it, the more impact we can have.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. 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