[cc-community] ASCAP

Brenda Kayne kayne at songsforall.com
Mon May 12 07:01:49 EDT 2008


I'm not sure if that would help or not, but it might.  The interesting thing
is that I only have one work registered with ASCAP, but they are making
trouble for me for all of my pieces.

Brenda

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Fred Benenson <fred.benenson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Brenda,
>   Interesting predicament. First, I'm not a lawyer so this shouldn't be
> taken as legal advice.
>
> But my feeling is that you're free to distribute your music under Creative
> Commons' Attribution-NonCommercial license at least, which restricts
> commercial use. My rudimentary understanding is that ASCAP retains
> commercial rights to the performance of your music and that is it, so the
> only conflict you'd run into in releasing your work for free would be if you
> wanted a more liberal license, like Attribution or Attribution-ShareAlike.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Fred
>
>
>   On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Brenda Kayne <kayne at songsforall.com>
> wrote:
>
> >   Howdy folks,
> >
> > I am brand new to the web site and have not yet signed up for anything,
> > because I'm finding it impossible to get out of my membership to ASCAP!  Has
> > anyone else experienced this?
> >
> > I was told that I can't even submit the form until this July and I would
> > not be "officially" relieved of my membership until April of 2009!
> >
> > If anyone has any suggestions to give me, please do so.  There are
> > people wanting to use my music and I'm stuck!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brenda C. Kayne
> >
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