[cc-community] ASCAP
Brenda Kayne
kayne at songsforall.com
Mon May 12 13:44:40 EDT 2008
That's what I'm trying to do! Cancel ASCAP! But they are not letting me do
it - I have to wait to July to even apply. I would not have my membership
relinquished until July of 2009!
I don't see how that is legal, but apparently it is - unless someone tells
me differently.
b
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Jamison Young <jam at iarts.cc> wrote:
> Hi Brenda,
> SABAM are the rights organization for Belgium. As your a member of ASCAP
> without a creative commons license, your music caries a royalty fee when
> used anywhere. Its not totally free, although free for download.
>
> As the restaurant is a commercial premise your tunes would have to be
> licensed under a creative commons license that allows commercial use.
>
> You might want to cancel with ASCAP and also license with a creative
> commons BY license. Then your music can be used with or without attribution
> and also has a symbol to keep SABAM away. Depends on what you want to do?
>
> hi from Antwerp.
>
> Jamison
>
> On May 12, 2008, at 6:37 PM, cc-community-request at lists.ibiblio.orgwrote:
>
> Message: 1
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> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 12:28:27 -0400
>
> From: "Brenda Kayne" <kayne at songsforall.com>
>
> Subject: Re: [cc-community] ASCAP
>
> To: cc-community at lists.ibiblio.org
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> I haven't even applied for a Creative Commons license yet.
>
>
> I iam a composer who invites everyone to look at my website and download
> any
>
> music they want as long as they let me know and attribute my work. I plan
>
> to apply for a CC license.
>
>
> What happened was that a restaurant manager in Belgium got into all kinds
> of
>
> trouble because he downloaded my music (with my permission) and played it
> as
>
> background music at his restaurant. An ASCAP person came in and demanded
>
> that he pay a fee for using my music.
>
>
> Well,the restaurant manager was upset with this. He was the person who
> told
>
> me all about
>
> Creative Commons. I decided that I no longer wanted anything to do with
>
> ASCAP and then ran into this issue of them not letting me out of my
>
> membership until next year and having to wait until July even to submit my
>
> request.
>
>
> I had just figured that I wanted to get out of ASCAP, be free and clear of
>
> it, and then sign up for my Creative Commons license.
>
>
> What do you think? Thanks so much for your input.
>
>
> b
>
>
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