Dear All, I play my lute regularly at a local restaurant, music from before 1650 exclusively. The owners have been contacted by BMI and were told that they need a license. BMI states on its web page that: "Broadcast Music, Inc. collects license fees from businesses that use music, which it distributes as royalties to songwriters, composers & music publishers." (All of it, except 97% which unfortunately has to go toward administrative overhead to keep the Musical Loss Ratio in the acceptable range?)
Putting it generously, I would call this BMI claim dubious and my question is: am I missing something here? Is this legitimate? If so, does John Dowland have a Pay Pall account to receive those royalties? (In that case, we have finally, once and for all solved the pronunciation issue; it's: "Semper Doughland, semper Doughman.") How about Anonymous? Thanks, Peter. the next auto-quote is: So the end result of the long campaign against government is that we've taken a disastrously wrong turn. America is now on the unlit, unpaved road to nowhere. (Paul Krugman) /\/\ Peter Nightingale Telephone (401) 874-5882 Department of Physics, East Hall Fax (401) 874-2380 University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
