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From: lat@stcvax.UUCP (Larry Tepper)
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Subject: Re: Theft of Copyrighted Material
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Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 11:38:19 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 22 11:38:19 1984
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> From: gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore)
> ...
> So while it's true that ASCAP could sue every bar in North America,
> they won't, because it's a losing proposition.
> ...

Not true!  I am on the board of the Nancy Spanier Dance Theatre here
in Boulder.  We are both a performing company and a school.  Just last
night we had a board meeting in which our general manager informed us
that a man from ASCAP walked into our offices and explained to her
that we have to pay them a licensing fee.  As a dance school, we play
recorded music during classes, and there is a very good chance that some
of the music we play is copyrighted by an ASCAP member.  He pointed out
that even if we just had a piano and pianist for our classes, if we
played any music by its members we'd still have to ante up.  When she
said, "suppose we told you we don't use music by any of your members?",
his reply was that they would just enroll one of their local members in
a class of ours, and sooner or later they would catch us.  Their
licensing fee was something like $200 or $300 per year.

In addition, it had been pointed out in the Boulder Daily Camera (rated
right up there with the NY Times, Washington Post, etc.) a few months ago
that the local restaurants, bars, aerobics joints, etc. were being hit up
by these folks.

My point is this; Boulder is a town of about 100,000 people.  ASCAP has
decided that it's worth the money to put an agent in our town and get
the revenues from local establishments.  There are a LOT of towns in
the U.S.A. with as many or more restaurants as we have.
-- 
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