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[Glen Zook]

Along those same lines, I knew a small grocery store owner who added a speaker to his radio, which was located in a small office in the back of the store, near the cash register.  This was primarily to listen to the broadcast of the local high school team games.  He got a visit from ASCAP!  They said that remoting the speaker violated ASCAP requirements.  They wanted him to pay a fee for having the remote speaker.

So, the owner put a radio under the counter so that he could listen to the games.  The ASCAP personal agreed that was "OK" since he was listening to an actual radio and was not "remoting" it!

Glen, K9STH

Website:  http://k9sth.com


--- On Sun, 5/16/10, Drew P. <drewrailleur807 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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).