Restaurant owner says [cover] songs may cost him his business
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[Oct 11,2006 10:01am - the_reverend ""]
http://www.blogs.oregonlive.com/oregonian/...newsupdates/default.asp?item=214112
fuck that.
[Oct 11,2006 10:05am - mOe ""]
wow, what a load of BS
people have been covering songs in resturants/bars since the dawn of time why is it a problem now
show business people will do anything for a buck
[Oct 11,2006 11:19am - blackmetallady ""]
That's messed up. A band just asked me the other day if they could perform a cover to a Slayer song at a upcoming national show, but now I guess the answer is no... that's gay.
[Oct 11,2006 11:41am - dreadkill ""]
that sucks
[Oct 11,2006 11:55am - SacreligionNLI ""]
i was under the assumption that playing covers live can be done anytime, it's recording and selling them that is the issue
i don't think anyone else would act on that though, those guys are probably just a bunch of douchebags looking for an easy paycheck
[Oct 11,2006 11:56am - dreadkill ""]
if chuck schuldiner's family sues my band for covering crystal mountain the other night, i'm gonna be pissed.
[Oct 11,2006 12:04pm - nicc nli ""]
I'm pretty sure as long as the bands weren't paid per song, than there's no suit and even if there were, it should be against the bands.
[Oct 11,2006 12:10pm - SacreligionNLI ""]
if this was a legitimate suit then every cover/tribute band in america would have to stop playing out immediately, which si another point. don't you think every cover/tribute band would've had to deal wtih this already?
[Oct 11,2006 12:13pm - xmikex ""]
I was humming Hotel California yesterday, and the Eagles broke my kneecaps..... now I know what that was all about.
[Oct 11,2006 12:23pm - hungtableed ""]
wow, fucking gay.
[Oct 11,2006 12:25pm - blackmetallady ""]
SacreligionNLI said:if this was a legitimate suit then every cover/tribute band in america would have to stop playing out immediately, which si another point. don't you think every cover/tribute band would've had to deal wtih this already?
The bar has to pay an ascap or BMI fee (royalty) fee every year or the cover bands can't play at the club, or original bands that might do a cover.
[Oct 11,2006 12:26pm - dreadkill ""]
xmikex said:I was humming Hotel California yesterday, and the Eagles broke my kneecaps..... now I know what that was all about.
best post in the thread
[Oct 12,2006 9:47am - ShadowSD ""]
blackmetallady said:The bar has to pay an ascap or BMI fee (royalty) fee every year or the cover bands can't play at the club, or original bands that might do a cover.
Right, which is at most 7 cents per song, although that's often capped off at 5.5 cents per song (assuming the figures haven't changed in the nine years since I read this
)[Oct 12,2006 9:54am - the_reverend ""]
the BMI/ASCAP fee is like $7K/year and you are suppose to keep at log of all the songs.
or give a couple times per year sample that they then extrapolate.
[Oct 12,2006 10:06am - SacreligionNLI ""]
ya learn something new every day
$7k a year is a bit ridiculous though...the record industry really needs the money though HA!