Comments on: ascap and imbibe in a spat

By: bryan

bryan — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:17:53 +0000

I was told by a friend that works at ASCAP and her comment was that generally speaking they only take legal action after countless attempts to get the venue to pay the licensing fees..meaning they send letters, visit the establishment etc. but in this case you never know.

By: bryan

bryan — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:59:37 +0000

free for composers and publishers …. for businesses there is an annual fee. Rates are based on the manner in which the music is performed and the size of the establishment or potential audience for the music. Admission charges, seating, live or recorded are all factors in the annual amount, to which I am trying to find out roughly what that might be. I believe that when you lease a DMX sattelite radio system, the license is tied into the lease of the product, but I do not beleive that the license can be applied to any live music. I wish those ASCAP field reps educated the venues a little better. The funny thing is that there are 3 Perfoming Rights Organizations and ASCAP is one of them….dont forget your licenses from BMI and SESAC, people think that when they have an ASCAP license they are covered for all the songs in the world but that is not the case, domestically BMI and SESAC can sue your ass as well.

By: Dave Allen

Dave Allen — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:30:15 +0000

Bryan, what’s the cost to join ascap? and what’s the cost for a small business to license music from ascap? any idea….

By: bryan

bryan — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:07:48 +0000

that sucks…based on reading this it sounds like Imbibe falted one time in the face of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) not ASMP and will have to pay dearly. One wonders if they were warned or had previously had a license with ASCAP and did not renew, I cant imagine that they did not get a warning…I mean ASCAP is a little nicer than the RIAA.