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Type: Statesman Quotes Category: German Statesman Quotes Date of Birth: January 16, 1931 Date of Death: January 27, 2006 Nationality: German Find on Amazon: Johannes Rau Related Authors: Angela Merkel Gerhard Schroder Horst Koehler Konrad Adenauer Bernhard von Bulow Gerhard Schroeder Kaiser Wilhelm |
A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?
Johannes Rau A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany. Johannes Rau But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests. Johannes Rau But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools. Johannes Rau Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one. Johannes Rau Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability. Johannes Rau I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment. Johannes Rau We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy. Johannes Rau |
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