Oh Bloody Hell
The dumbest story I read this week year. Courtesy of Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN).
Saturday, July 21, 2007
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I was offered a job about 20 years ago from BMI..the gig was to "audit" certain big places (hospitals, big grocery stores) and write down every song I heard for 3 hours..then figure out which ones were licensed by BMI. Then they'd send along an "enforcer" (their term) to see that the place was paying the proper....juice, uh, I mean licensing fee. You should have seen the guys they'd send to clubs..
The musicians union used to do that too..in Chicago at least, NYC too. You'd be playing a club and at the break a guy would show up and ax to see your card..in the old days, the reward for not having a card after 2 such visits was to see your Kustom Amp floating in the Chicago river..tuck 'n' roll floats..
sorry for the hijack T, just reminiscing.
Hospitals??? Damn that's cold.
Cool story. I wish they'd make a movie about it. Starring Leonard Cohen as the big boss. He could use the cash. : )
I am not offended by songwriters wanting the right to license their songs, but I believe that this is the kind of thing that could benefit by missionary work--"hairdressers--play this, it's free!".
We should have titled the compilation "music for beauty parlors".
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