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

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

The last question about PD music got me thinking. I found this website. It
has lots of public domain songs listed  from a link and the info is good.

http://www.pdinfo.com/

However, early on, it states that even though the song is in the public
domain, a recording of it will not be. So, that makes it more complicated.
To use the song, according to this, you would have to record your own
version -- not too practical. It is the song in the PD, not the artist doing
it. I do not know where the fellow I worked for got the recordings for the
theater, but it was really unfamiliar and foreign.

----- 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