[Dixielandjazz] ASCAP, BMI, etc.

[Ministry of Jazz]

Yes, Ron, but just as government is supposed to serve the people and not
abuse us, so music organizations need to help us to advance our music, and
not strangle us to death with it.

My copyright license was the single most expensive component of my CD
production other than the recording itself. And in my case, the recording
cost was unusually high because of the multi-track nature of the project. A
normal studio recording or live recording of a band would also have cost
less than the copyright license.

Furthermore, getting the license was the single biggest bottleneck and
headache of the process. While everyone else worked with me to meet my
deadline, the music police took a week to respond to phone calls, emails,
and my application, and more than another week to process it, and another
couple of days to correct their error in the album name on the license. What
they themselves said would take 2-3 days actually took 3 weeks to complete,
and it would have been longer if I had not stayed on their backs until it
was done.

And the license only permits me to produce my 1000 disks. It does not give
me the right to play these disks or the songs on them in a public
performance, even if it is not for profit. Those are separate licenses.
Where does it stop?

Elazar

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron L [mailto:lherault at bu.edu]

I'm not much into politics, Dave, however, I believe the IRS is a
collecting/enforcing arm of the US government, which in theory is us, that
is ourselves. So I guess Pogo was right.