Thread: Ascap & Bmi
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Old July 14th, 2004, 10:20 PM
bdayton bdayton is offline
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Can Of Worms....

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It is my understanding that if a venue is already paying the BMI/ASCAP licenses for their facility... IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW THEY PLAY THE MUSIC! Juke box, Radio, Karaoke... all fall under the same PERFORMANCE LICENSE... which is what BMI/ASCAP collects.
Here's a potential worm.... The songs we play at our shows were written by "A" and were performed in the style of "B" but not actually performed by, or sung by the "B"'s. Why should the "B"'s get any of the royalties? Can a "Style" be copyrighted?

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