vdubreeze wrote:
On May 18, 12:03 am, "Bill Graham" wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:
Bill Graham wrote:
Maybe Blake should have talked to the BMI rep and explained the
situation. All of these things are negotiated and nobody pays the
first fee they are offered. Especially when most of the music (though
not all) is PD. Another alternative is for Blake to decide to play
only PD music and arrangements (or his own arrangements), which is a
fairly easy thing to do for Dixieland.
BMI is there to make sure everybody plays fairly and everybody gets
paid for their work, they are not some evil organization out to "get"
musicians. --scott
BMI is there to make sure BMI gets paid. Period. No composer of anything
written before around 1950 is still alive. This music should be in the
Public Domain. Fifty years is a pretty good number. Anything written more
than 50 years ago should be in the public domain. That gives any songwriter
50 years to sell and reap the profits from his work. That would sure be long
enough for me. 1927 was 84 years ago......
This is getting far afield of the original post, but I would
definitely not want the music I wrote in 1970 to become public domain
in 2020. Yeesh.
Mr. Graham rants about this stuff because he doesn't write songs. I sure
hope he isn't collecting any retirement money. After all, he's not
working anymore.
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