[Fmpro] $ depletion

[Louis King]

like I said you all know more about the details than I know ...

there has to be something there that a good Attorney general would  
sink his teeth into ... it's just too unethical ...




On Oct 24, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Mark Northam wrote:

> Hard to call it a monopoly when there are 3 PRO's to choose from,  
> plus you
> can choose to direct license and not use a PRO...
>
> Problem is, as Peter Myers found out when he simply wanted to  
> classify his
> music with a live vocalist as a "background vocal", ASCAP will  
> spend any
> amounts of OUR money to legally bury anybody and everybody who  
> fights "the
> system". They have a virtually unlimited legal defense fund paid  
> for by the
> very same members who, some believe, are being treated incredibly  
> unfairly.
>
> Not to mention they're in regular communications with the publishers,
> studios, production companies, etc., and from my experience have  
> not been
> shy about "warning" people about associating with those who they do  
> not
> approve of.  What composer is going to put his/her career at risk  
> and spend
> a lot of money to try and solve these kinds of problems?
>
> I'll say it again, we need a well-funded industry group whether it  
> be a
> guild, union, or otherwise, to deal with these issues. And we need  
> a group
> that is not bending over backwards thanking the PROs for their  
> funding at
> every opportunity...
>
>
> Best,
>
> Mark Northam
>
>
> On 10/24/06 1:05 PM, "Louis King" <lking1 at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> I think it would be hard to call it anything other than a
>> monopoly ......  hence against the law ....
>>
>> also I believe they like any big business operate on the line between
>> legal and illegal making a large home in the GREY area ....
>
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