Re: [ARSCLIST] ASCAP follows RIAA down the road guaranteed not to make friends

["Steven Smith, King of the House, Inc." <kingofthehouse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It was not very good music. Some of it was foreign, like a poor person's
opera. Nobody ever recognized anything. And some really old standards are in
there too. I know some religious music is in the public domain.

Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] ASCAP follows RIAA down the road guaranteed not to
make friends


> Frank Strauss wrote:
> > On 8/1/07, Steven Smith, King of the House, Inc.
<kingofthehouse@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >> Again, 20 years ago, I worked with
> >> a large theater chain. They were told they had to pay ASCAP fees for
the
> >> music before and after the show. The owner of the huge Washington
chain,
> >> instead, managed to locate a bunch of music that was in the public
domain.
> >> He put that in all theaters. It was not very current, but he got around
> >> paying out money for intermission music.
> >>
> >>
> > How much public domain music is there?
> >
> In the US, any song published before 1924.
>
> dl