[Fmpro] CPA music? - Just curious

[Mark Northam]

ASCAP's weightings date back to the days of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley,
and ASCAP's founders were, for the most part, songwriters.  Instrumental
music used to be treated even worse in past decades, and ASCAP's refusal to
recognize and pay country and "race music" (as it was called then) led in
part to the formation of BMI, their chief competition.

We've come a long was as a nation since those years, and in most segments of
society, the kind of wholesale, institutionalized discrimination that the
ASCAP weighting formula represents has been eliminated in favor of a more
enlightened, fair system where the idea of singling out particular groups of
people and devaluing their work has been thrown on the trash heap of history
where it belongs.

Mark N.


On 11/27/07 7:29 PM, "Michael S Patterson" <doc_absynthe at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone knows the history behind the various
> weights of music? I don¹t. Does this go back before the days of TV?
> There must have been a time where music was just tabulated
> and payed out. 
> 
> I¹m guessing this is a decision that was made at some point at
> ASCAP or BMI. And who were the decision makers behind this
> shift?
> 
> Michael S Patterson

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