[BC] ASCAP and BMI and Rights

[Kevin Tekel]

Bob Orban wrote:
> There is a lot of compelling 20th and 21st century "classical" music
> that is still in copyright. (Stravinsky, Copeland, Lutislovsky,
> Hindemith,  Berg. John Adams,...those are just a few names. that came to
> mind; the list goes on.) A classical station that only played works
> written before 1920 could certainly find programming to fill its day,
> but it would be ignoring a lot of fine music written more recently.

I'm surprised that every time a station has a few moments of dead air, it
isn't charged by ASCAP as playing an excerpt from John Cage's 4'33".



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