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From: linda@amdcad.UUCP (Linda Seltzer)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.music,net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Background music pollution
Message-ID: <5350@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 18:17:13 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 25 18:17:13 1985
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Summary: Clarification

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.

I want to make clear that I used the above composers' names as an example
and I have no information on whether these particular people have actually
profited from or dealt with Muzak (my citation of Stevie Wonder's music
as an example was probably incorrect).  
These are the kinds of people whose songs might be used by Muzak.