[Boatanchors] 73 Magazine pdf files

[Bob Peters]

Drew...This happened to one of my customers...A small Italian Restaurant in
a little hick town... They have my music and I pay all the fees...One night
some customer got up and played the piano that was there... There was an
ASCAP agent on site and actually recorded it and took pictures...ASCAP sued
for 50K and actually settled for $10 K...
They really do not do this anymore... Kinda went by the wayside  LOL

Bob

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On the topic of copyright infringement, Bob mentioned parallel experience in
the music industry:

[snipped]

"I work and my living is made in Copyright Music... We sell Music to
restaurants, Retail stores ect ect. Since the beginning of IPOD's and Music
on the Internet our business has diminished a great deal. Do the FEDS GET
INVOLVED No and Hell no. Do the Copyright agencies like ASCAP AND BMI try to
do anything... Yes if it means BIG BIG money like Napster did...Do they get
involved with a restaurant playing music...NOPE..."

Well, only sorta'...I know a lady who owns a small coffee shop and sometimes
on weekend nights has musicians performing...well...coffeeshop.  Usually a
lone guy and his guitar or a singer ticking the ivories on the old piano
there and belting out a tune.  Frequently, the performer du jour will cover
a copyrighted tune to an audience of almost 10 people...wow!  They hit the
big time!

She has had to ask the performers to stop covering tunes.  It seems that she
has gotten nastygrams from ASCAP lawyers trying to extract fees from her for
hosting public performances of copyrighted material.  She tells the lawyers
to go pound sand and they go away...presumably pounding sand...they have
bigger fish to fry.

Me? I like to listen to that old music on an SP-600; nice audio quality from
that 6V6 output stage (whew, boatanchor tie-in).

Drew
 


      
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