LATI Social Contract

  1. We will give back to the taiko community through copyleft repertoire

    2. When we contribute new material to the LATI Repertoire, we will license it in a manner consistent with the LATI Repertoire Guidelines for Use. We will make the best music and choreography we can, so that the works will be widely distributed and used. We hope our music is genuinely empowering to the taiko community.

  2. Our priorities are taiko artists and the art-form of taiko

    3. Our repertoire is entirely copyleft-licensed such that taiko players may freely learn and perform the works without restriction. These freedoms include commercial uses of the works, to empower players to benefit from paid performance and recording. We hope these freedoms will encourage growth through access to world-class music and the empowerment of real-world professional and aspiring-professional players.

    The copyleft licenses also allow for the modification of LATI Repertoire, without requiring explicit permission beyond the requirements of the copyleft licenses. Works can be revised, truncated, expanded, and remixed, as long as these contributions remain under the same copyleft license as the parent work(s). We hope these freedoms will encourage compositional creativity.

    It is our hope that unrestricted access to a pool of copyleft repertoire will contribute to the development of world-class works of taiko art.

  3. We will offer attribution and foster appreciation

    The copyleft licenses of the works explain the legal requirements of using and modifying the Repertoire, including the attribution of the works' creator(s). Beyond these legal requirements, however, we seek to honor and appreciate contributors to the Repertoire. We will seek to foster a community of mutual appreciation, even as we might disagree about artistic interpretations. We will hold ourselves to a high standard of legal conduct as well as community responsibility.

  4. We will play nicely with non-copyleft

    5. We acknowledge that many players and composers will require the use of works that do not conform to the LATI Repertoire Guidelines. We will support the study and creation of such works where possible. LATI facilities and events will never be off-limits to non-copyleft work, for example.

  5. We will protect the LATI Repertoire from non-copyleft works

    6. Our contributors will exercise extreme caution to keep non-copyleft work out of the LATI Repertoire, preventing non-copyleft contributions from tainting the copyleft pool. This diligence will include a signed Composer / Contributor Certificate of Origin for every contribution to the Repertoire.

  6. LATI repertoire will remain 100% copyleft

    7. We promise that the LATI repertoire will be free to use and build upon according to the rules of copyleft set forth in LATI Repertoire Guidelines for Use. Once released under a copyleft license, that work will remain copyleft (though the composer retains the ability to cross-license).

    LATI coursework will never require non-copyleft works. LATI students will be able to study from entry-level to state-of-the-art using all copyleft work.