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Re: [ARSCLIST] ASCAP follows RIAA down the road guaranteed not to make friends
You know, this could mean the rebirth of classical music. Instead of
hearing Boston or Journey or ??? for the umpteenth time, they can play
Wagner.
Phillip
Tom Fine wrote:
This produces a vision of the Stephen Foster loop of music at every
movie theater! And for a change of pace, the ragtime reel. And for
something really different, the Sousa reel.
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lennick"
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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.
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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