[Imc-newsroom] Music on Newshour

[Paul Kotheimer]

hi Michael

speaking as a recording artist whose work gets played on the radio (AND as
an IMC NewsHour producer), here's my understanding of how it all works:

when you (the Producer of a Radio Broadcast) play a song on the radio
under Capitalism, the way you "REIMBURSE" the artist (i.e. copyright
holder) is to notate the ARTIST, SONG, and ALBUM, on the RADIO STATION'S
PLAYLIST.

on a yearly basis, as a matter of contract, radio stations reimburse
the "PERFORMERS' RIGHTS SOCIETY(s)" (i.e. ASCAP/BMI/etc.) and then the
"PERFORMERS' RIGHTS SOCIETY(s)" reimburse(s) the artists.

so, if i were the writer of the song in question, i would ask that if you
play one of MY songs on the IMC NewsHour, you please WRITE IT DOWN ON THE
WEFT PLAYLIST so that it gets logged in and tallied up (along with the
10,000 times that various Smashmouth songs have gotten played on WPGU) so
that [THEORETICALLY], in the end, i can get paid!!!

i presume that Utah Phillips would ask the same of you, regardless of the
overwhelming frequency-of-play that Smashmouth (or any other band's) songs
receive in the grand scheme of radio playlist rotation.

Will Utah Phillips ever get paid for the ONE measley time you play his
song on the NewsHour? --you may ask...

in the end, probably not.  but now you know how to TRY to pay him for his
efforts.

love and music,
paulkotheimer:)


 On Sun, 4 Nov 2001,
Michael Feltes wrote:

> Can we use music on the newshour?  I want to cut a snippet of "The
> Internationale" by Utah Phillps and Ani Difranco into the end of an interview, but is
> that kosher with the whole ASCAP/BMI thing?
> 
> -- 
> --
> 
> Michael Feltes
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> 
> The question is asked - can we afford it [Labour's socialistic 
> reforms]?  Supposing the answer is 'No,' what does that mean?  It 
> really means that the sum total of the goods produced and the 
> services rendered by the people of this country is not sufficient to 
> provide for all our people at all times, in sickness, in health, in 
> youth and in age, [a] very modest standard of life... I cannot 
> believe that our national productivity is so slow, that our 
> willingness to work is so feeble or that we can submit to the world 
> that the masses of our people must be condemned to penury.
> 
> - Clement Attlee, 1946
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