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

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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