01-16-2020, 04:39 PM
The long tentacles of BMI/ASCAP are everywhere of course. They went after Circuit City back in the 1990s for having the audacity of playing music in stores in order to help sell stereos. Of course CC successfully told them to go fuck off.
This rant is about an old, small place in a very small town that lacks a proper police department and has almost no schooling available.
About once every two months they'd host a dinner (cooked on site) and local musicians who would drive 20-60 minutes to get there. Everything has always been "donate if you want, but if you don't want to its OK too." For your donation of about $10 they'd feed you dinner while performers performed for no pay. Maybe there would be like 60 people in the audience, pretty much with an average age of like 70.
Well now they can't perform any copyrighted songs. To adjust, they're switching to a new format where only snacks are provided in a different (smaller) room, and where maybe only By the Light of the Silvery Moon is performed. Performers can play their own music, if they have any. But this ain't the Opry.
I fail to see how any of this protects innovation or intellectual property.
This rant is about an old, small place in a very small town that lacks a proper police department and has almost no schooling available.
About once every two months they'd host a dinner (cooked on site) and local musicians who would drive 20-60 minutes to get there. Everything has always been "donate if you want, but if you don't want to its OK too." For your donation of about $10 they'd feed you dinner while performers performed for no pay. Maybe there would be like 60 people in the audience, pretty much with an average age of like 70.
Well now they can't perform any copyrighted songs. To adjust, they're switching to a new format where only snacks are provided in a different (smaller) room, and where maybe only By the Light of the Silvery Moon is performed. Performers can play their own music, if they have any. But this ain't the Opry.
I fail to see how any of this protects innovation or intellectual property.