[BC] Re: question for the braintrust

[Dennis Cope]

Actually the artist does have to pay the composer to play their song, unless
other arrangements are made.

Ok, radio stations make money indirectly from content (music), directly from
advertising... ;-)

Dennis
WESR, WCTG


> Radio stations make money from music, so ASCAP wants a piece of the pie.

Actually, no.  We make money from selling advertising.  Two stations with
comparable signals can play the same music, yet station A bills much more
than station B.  Station A gets penalized for having the better sales staff
by paying higher ASCAP and BMI fees.  Who really made that money?  The music
or the sales staff?

> As the courts have ruled the composers created the song, so they own it,
so
they must be compensated for your use of their song,, remember it  did not
exist before they wrote it.  Of course the publishers don't want to be left
out and then the artist feel they need more money.

I've long said that the artist should pay the composer for the use of the
song.  They're the one that is truly "using" it and stand to make the most
from it.  We make no money from the "public performance" of the song -
nobody pays to listen to our radio station.

LF