Yow, this could make for some interesting reading.
In the early days of popular-music radio programming, many radio stations licensed tunes from both ASCAP and BMI (the prominent musical work rights organizations in the United States), but some radio stations played only ASCAP's music or only BMI's music. Soon, one of the orgs (I forget which one, but call it ASCAP for discussion) went down the list of music radio stations that didn't license ASCAP music and sent them all nastygrams. and the stations faced costly copyright compliance audits, and they realized that licensing both catalogs was cheaper than audits.
In addition, if RIAA makes any progress in closing the analog hole, it'll be impossible for home users to record their bands' original works for free public distribution on the Internet. (I'm not claiming that garage band music is original.)
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Posted by: tepples on July 19, 2002 06:22 AMYow, this could make for some interesting reading.
In the early days of popular-music radio programming, many radio stations licensed tunes from both ASCAP and BMI (the prominent musical work rights organizations in the United States), but some radio stations played only ASCAP's music or only BMI's music. Soon, one of the orgs (I forget which one, but call it ASCAP for discussion) went down the list of music radio stations that didn't license ASCAP music and sent them all nastygrams. and the stations faced costly copyright compliance audits, and they realized that licensing both catalogs was cheaper than audits.
In addition, if RIAA makes any progress in closing the analog hole, it'll be impossible for home users to record their bands' original works for free public distribution on the Internet. (I'm not claiming that garage band music is original.)
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