[Fmpro] Bill of Rights

[JJB]

How about this for a game plan that actually could happen:

Someone (like Mark Northam) sets up a donation account where we all can 
contribute $ to put a full page ad in the New York or Los Angeles Times 
with the "open letter". If the $ threshold is not met, then the $ get 
refunded to everybody minus a small processing fee. 

How about that? Otherwise, how about another 10 years of griping about 
the conditions for composers and nothing happens? (since the first time 
I joined the list in 1997, Les and Brian Corber saying the same things 
for years, the thread of discussion has not changed a bit since then, 
and things have not changed) .

I am not an ASCAP member, but would be happy to contribute some amount 
of $ to a project that will benefit composers, even if it doesn't 
directly benefit me.

Maybe a deadline for August or even better during some major ASCAP event 
that is held every year so that they can't help but be bombarded with 
questions from the news media about this.

So, does anyone have the guts, balls or ovaries, to make this happen, or 
is it easier to just sit around and complain?

yawn...snore

 - Joel


andrew feazelle wrote:
> So, Chris, what's next? Is this sort of an open letter to ASCAP that  
> they can feel free to ignore? Or is there a game plan that goes along  
> with this to get ASCAP to make this Bill of Rights a reality?
>
> Kevin Mathie
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> If you get enough people to sign the bill of rights - for example, well over the amount of people required to write in an indipendent candidate for the Board of Directors, they may not totally ignore us. In fact they may want to "sponcer" us (ie attach puppet strings).  
>
> Fez
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