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From: pwk@ccice2.UUCP (Paul W. Karber)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.music
Subject: Re: Background music pollution
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Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 17:56:39 EST
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In article <5287@amdcad.UUCP> linda@amdcad.UUCP (Linda Seltzer) writes:
>And why do none of the famous musicians complain about it?  If Muzak
>adapts a tune by, for example, the Beatles, or by Stevie Wonder, or by Leonard
>Bernstein (West Side Story), then the composer receives a royalty not for 
>every tape, but for every PERFORMANCE.  Each time the recording is played in
>any store the composer gets a royalty.  Many musicians become
>quite wealthy because of the adaptations of their songs.

Technical correction;  When Muzak adapts a tune whoever owns the RIGHTS
to that tune receives a royalty.  Thus whenever Muzak plays a tune
adapted from the Beatles, Michael Jackson makes money.  Paul McCartney
on the other hand owns the rights to all songs from West Side Story.

-- 
Of course I could be wrong.

siesmo!rochester!ccice5!ccice2!pwk (Paul W. Karber)