I’m not sure moonwalk is copyrighted tough.

At children’s music competitions in Ontario they enforce their racket selling overpriced sheet music and music books by refusing to grade any contestant who doesn’t present an official purchased copy of the music to the adjudicator. The joke of it is, nearly every piece is an old, uncopyrighted work by Mozart, Bach or whomever, which has at most been lightly edited for the children’s edition, sometimes with only a couple of articulation marks and a cartoon added.

Overall I am a big fan of what is mostly a private, unsubsidized arts activity. The private instructors are largely untaxed due to the highly distributed, small-scale nature of the instruction. There is no tax writeoff for the private lessons and the recitals are usually performed at no expense in borrowed church halls. It is arts and culture happening spontaneously and freely.

At a certain level however the government gets its fat, sticky paws all over the children’s arts scene. Especially in the downtown areas of big cities which are full of politicians, government employees, bankers and government contractors, you find large “academy” type arts schools for the children of the elite. These are subsidized to the hilt and the halls of these academies are sometimes covered with life-sized portrait photos of the politicians who showered them with stolen public money. It happens for dance, music, painting, and probably every kind of activity that the nibs assume is the right of their children to partake.

This is a very good post for me. I think you should add more video and pictures because it helps visitors