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Re: Pete's BMI deal



Sounds like he's about ready to resign his membership.  I guess he still has 
to pay to play his own music, though, right?  Time to get rid of that 
system.

keets


>I would imagine that Pete has pretty much the same
>deal with BMI that any composer does - virtually
>anyone that has copyrighted music can join BMI. The
>original intent of BMI was to keep an accurate survey
>of music played on radio, TV, and live performances,
>and to make sure that the copyright holders of that
>music were paid appropriate royalties for the use of
>their music. For years now BMI has done this surveying
>by statistical sampling, and of course their methods
>of doing this have been controversial. Many composers
>seem to agree that only the writers with the most
>aggressive agents get paid appropriately, and that BMI
>has become just another corporate demon in the music
>world. Pete's story about the '89 tour - that he had to pay
>BMI for permission to use his own music, and then had
>to wade through oceans of red tape to get paid for his
>songs having been performed - seems to be typical of
>their treatment of most composers.












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