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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" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 11:18 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




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