Repeal: "Museums Of Musical Heritage"
Category: Repeal
The World Assembly,
While recognising and applauding the efforts of this august body to preserve and promote the cultural and societal value of music for the benefit of posterity, and to ensure that access to music as a cultural and societal expression is open and readily available across the honourable member nations of this illustrious organisation,
Realises that extant legislation in the form of GAR #86 "Museums Of Musical Heritage" executes its intention in a flawed and detrimental manner, namely for the following reasons:
- GAR #86 supplies no definition of what it considers to be music, and imposes no form of sensible curation of the material submitted to the Museums of Musical Heritage (MoMH) for preservation and compilation, meaning that any being or entity that has produced a sound that could be remotely construed as musical - regardless of how whimsical, irrelevant or culturally insignificant it is - can be submitted to the MoMH and will have to be stored and preserved for posterity, even if the submission were to solely consist of rhythmically composed flatulence accompanied by echoing eructation;
- The target resolution puts no security measures into effect so as to ensure that the music that is collected and compiled by the MoMH is stored and preserved in a responsible and secure manner either physically or digitally, and so freely enables malicious entities to access the stored music - especially in digital form - and to use those works for ill-intended purposes, such as for unauthorised duplication or cultural defamation, and thus endangers its intent to lead to better appreciation and understanding of other nations' cultures through music;
- "Museums Of Musical Heritage" liberally offers pecuniary compensation without stipulating what it considers to be "necessary", and under what conditions it would be required to offer remuneration for the donation of music. In addition, no clarity or direction is given over who or what the "impartial arbitrator" is supposed to be, what their duties would entail, or how far their competencies would stretch in administering the MoMH's funds. Such a lack of oversight and direction means that WA funds are irresponsibly spent, for example in the event a donor of music would decide they require remuneration for their submission simply because they desire such financial compensation;
And thus, repeals GAR #86 "Museums Of Musical Heritage".