Comments on: ASCAP To St. Stephen’s Church: Pay Up http://bandwidth.wamu.org/ascap-to-st-stephens-church-pay-up/ WAMU 88.5's New Music Site Fri, 07 Feb 2020 22:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 By: Justin Cudney http://bandwidth.wamu.org/ascap-to-st-stephens-church-pay-up/#comment-135 Thu, 12 Jun 2014 01:53:00 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=33923#comment-135 Yes, you missed the part where ASCAP has no control over the music played by The Evens.

“The band plays no covers, and owns 100 percent of the publishing of the songs we’ve written. ASCAP has zero control, interests, or rights to our music.”

Considering that 99% of the bands playing Positive Force shows are underground punk bands releasing their own music it is also highly unlikely anyone else is registered with ASCAP. Anti-Flag might be since they have gotten sort of big but I doubt it.

]]> By: Chris http://bandwidth.wamu.org/ascap-to-st-stephens-church-pay-up/#comment-134 Wed, 11 Jun 2014 21:02:00 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=33923#comment-134 ASCAP now gives artist the option to report shows they have performed so that they can receive performance royalties from that venue. There is a good chance that an artist that performed there in and around the time of the Even’s show logged the show on ASCAP plus or whatever their survey is called and then that made ASCAP aware of the fact that St Stephen’s was not paying a public performance license fee.

]]> By: Michael Beck http://bandwidth.wamu.org/ascap-to-st-stephens-church-pay-up/#comment-133 Wed, 11 Jun 2014 20:34:00 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=33923#comment-133 ASCAP has provided no evidence that any of their artists’ music has been played at St. Stephen’s.

]]> By: BillipPhailey http://bandwidth.wamu.org/ascap-to-st-stephens-church-pay-up/#comment-132 Wed, 11 Jun 2014 20:08:00 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=33923#comment-132 This church is down the street from me. I’ve seen folks with their instruments. I may just show up for a “service.”

]]> By: Shelly Bell http://bandwidth.wamu.org/ascap-to-st-stephens-church-pay-up/#comment-131 Wed, 11 Jun 2014 20:04:00 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=33923#comment-131 Maybe there’s something I’m missing. If you play copyrighted music you must pay. Are they not supposed to pay because they’re a church?

]]> By: FakeName http://bandwidth.wamu.org/ascap-to-st-stephens-church-pay-up/#comment-130 Wed, 11 Jun 2014 19:23:00 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=33923#comment-130 Glad to see them standing up to this petty extortion. ASCAP and BMI send these to all sorts of places with live music and figure most of them will just pay up to avoid any possible future litigation even if they have zero evidence of anyone at the venue using the content they own.

]]> By: Brett http://bandwidth.wamu.org/ascap-to-st-stephens-church-pay-up/#comment-129 Wed, 11 Jun 2014 19:21:00 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=33923#comment-129 ASCAP is a leech sucking the blood from independent music to keep big music pop stars wealthy.

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