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

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It also gives you everything of Victor Herbert but the Suite of Serenades, I 
think. Also everything by Verdi, Puccini, Irving Berlin's first 15 years, a few 
early Gershwin hits..

dl

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>
> 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