[BC] ASCAP and BMI and Rights

[Fee Lee]

XM uses their "per program logging", but ASCAP/BMI keep asking for more and 
more detail on their reports.  They were thinking of sending them a hard 
copy of the report one month instead of the computer readable media because 
of this constantly changing reporting requiremnets, but they didn't want to 
spend the money on paper and the 16 wheeler it would take to deliver the 
report! 

                                         Fee Lee
Steve writes: 

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>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: DANA PUOPOLO 
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>   Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 8:23 AM
>   Subject: Re: [BC] ASCAP and BMI and Rights 
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>   Classical. 
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>   One of the reasons I took WRR off a bulk ASCAP/BMI and went to their "per-program" logging. Yes, a lot of paper at the end of the month but the fees we're WAY lower. I told the G.M. we shouldn't be paying to play music for dead composers. So we only paid for the 20th century composers who still had active copyrights. With this change we had a huge credit balance (retroactive because of their delays). IIRC we didn't have to pay BMI for something like 3 years! 
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>   Steve
>   Steve Walker Productions 
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