RE: Music lic fees for stores

[Mark Shneyder <bostonradio@yahoo.com>]

True, but many big-name artists/performers such
as Bruce Springsteen, The Stones(Jagger & Richards), Aerosmith(Tyler &
Perry), Madonna, Prince, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson,etc write a
lot of their of own material and as singer/songwriters receive nice
compension for their more popular pieces.

- -Mark



- ---Gary F <gff@mediaone.net> wrote:
>
> ASCAP, BMI and the other music licensing firms are NOT sharing the
fees they collect with the artists - they only work for the composers
(who traditionally get the short end of everything).
> 
> -g.f.
> 
> 
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> From: 	"Mike Thomas"[SMTP:nostatic@earthlink.net]
> Sent: 	Sunday, January 03, 1999 12:00 AM
> To: 	Brian Vita
> Cc: 	Gary F; 'Boston Radio Mail List'
> Subject: 	Re: Music lic fees for stores
> 
> I took my son to see "A Bug's Life" while visiting relatives in
Philadelphia this
> week, and I noticed that the theater played a music service which is
specific to
> movie theaters.  I heard a lot of "emerging" artists like Kurt
Whalum and Emilia
> along with some holiday tunes and new Garth Brooks.  The
presentation was
> designed to expose music to the audiences as opposed to being
"background." They
> even announced the name of the CD's the songs were from.  It seems
to me that if
> this service is trying to promote music sales, than it should be
free from
> ASCAP/BMI licencing.
> 
> Personally, the unions should thank their lucky stars that radio is
out there
> playing their product.  Without radio or other music delivery
services, music
> would not be exposed to the public and thus would not be purchased. 
I don't buy
> the "background music" or "making money off their product"
arguments. Even at the
> softest AC stations, people call to find out the title/artist/album
information
> of specific songs with the intent to purchase them.  They should
just be happy to
> make their money on music purchases and leave distribution alone. 
As far as
> shaking down mom and pop stores for royalty fees, I'm suprised that
groups like
> the Small Business Administration haven't done more to lobby
Congress to close
> this silly copyright/licensing loophole.
> 
> Mike Thomas
> WXLO & Premiere Radio Networks
> 
> Brian Vita wrote:
> 
> > My clients are movie theatres where the music is played as "audio
chewing
> > gum" to amuse the audience and mask conversations before the
beginning of
> > the movie.  ASCAP will go into a number of different theatre
locations and
> > charge a wildly differing licensing fee regardless of the fact
that the
> > theatres may have near identical seating capacities and show
schedules.
> > The fees that I have heard ranged from $20 to $1000 apparently
based on
> > nothing more than what they thought that could get out of the
mark, er,
> > customer.
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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