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From: gardner@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Mike Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Copyrights on music
Message-ID: <1990Aug9.202321.7689@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 9 Aug 90 20:23:21 GMT
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Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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givler@cbmvax.commodore.com (Greg Givler - Product Assurance) writes:

>You should check with ASCAP. I think it stands for the American Society 
>of Composers and Publishers. They control the payment of royalties for
>their members. That is how stuff played on the radio makes money for 
>the writers and performers.

Has anyone who reads this group gotten permission/license to use
music through ASCAP for a small production.  What kind of hassle
is involved to get permission to use something on a single demo,
or the production of a couple of copies of a tape?

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