On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 11:26:25AM -0400, SIP wrote: > I actually tried to find that out (even something anecdotal), but so far > no luck. I'm guessing not that much. The law allows for adjusting the > percentages somewhat on the fly for various reasons (for instance, web > radio performances give much less money to the songwriters than regular > radio performances because they fall under a new category created > specifically to handle web radio), and I imagine that any legal action > that accrued hefty fines would likely be deemed to be mostly > administrative and legal costs as opposed to damages to the songwriter.
Well, that there is actually a valid reason not to pass such fines along to their members: if they're escrowing them to bankroll legal action on behalf of such members. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
