"The guy/gal who wrote the theme music for the NBA shows"
That would be John Tesh...
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Steven Catanzaro wrote:
> Yes, the venue has to pay licensing fees to the performing rights agencies, and yes they have to keep a log of all the music they play.
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> But, the real big ascap/bmi/seasac money is in air play, because you get paid a bit on each broadcast outlet. The bad news for someone like Queen is they don't get paid the massive bucks for "We Will Rock You."
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> Even though it's played at every game, and even though some big games are broadcast all over the world, the song doesn't run long enough to meet ascap's time requirement (30 seconds or some such...) In other words, the brief snippet played at the games is deemed to short and too incidental to count. (The guy/gal who wrote the theme music for the NBA shows... or whoever he sold the rights to, is the one poised to make alot of money.)
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> Ah well, I guess they got enough money out of that boom boom clap anyway...
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> As for the raves; almost all legit clubs pay their fees, and some display a cool ascap / bmi sticker in the window.
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> I guess since raves don't really have windows to display the stickers, rave promoters probably feel "why should I pay the license!"
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stimp
> To: acid-jazz@UCSD.Edu
> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 4:47 PM
> Subject: Hey guys, help me settle a music argument
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> Hope that everyone is enjoying their weekend. My buddies were over to watch the hockey game, and a discussion came up about whether a sports arena has to pay for the right to play the music that they play during the game. My buddy swears up and down that the people who own the arena don't have to pay royalties to whoever owns the rights to the song, while I'm pretty sure that they do. They argue that a band like Queen gets paid nothing for having "We will Rock You" played at every sporting event (assuming that Queen still owns the rights to the song), while I think they do. They didn't believe me, so I'm hoping that you guys could help settle this.
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> Actually, maybe we could take it a little further. I know that many of you are Dj's so maybe you could answer this for me as well. When spinning for a big event like a rave, are the promoters of the event required to pay royalties for the music used during their event? In this case, I would assume that the answer would be no, given that it would probably be quite difficult to monitor. In any case, the output of anyone in the know would be greatly appreciated.
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> Thanx,
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> Stimp
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