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Supreme Court decides not to hear ASCAP appeal for download royalties

article published on 5 October, 2011

An effort by US royalty collection society ASCAP to have music downloads classified as performances has ended with the Supreme Court declining to hear their appeal of a lower court ruling. The judge in the original case concluded a download doesn't meet the legal definition of a performance under US law. A separate ruling in the same case which affected streaming royalties wasn't being ... [ read the full article ]

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LordRuss
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_ 		5. October 2011 @ 14:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I even disowned my dad for about 6 years when he was working for these Nazis about 10 years ago. Even he looks back at those years & wonders how he survived without contracting stomach cancer from all the drinking... confronting storefront managers, street vendors playing radios, taxis playing the radios while on duty, construction sites that had a boom box playing. ASCAP & BMI both are completely AWOL of the brain & should be put down like a rabid animal. Not to mention that a fraction of a decimal point of the funds they extort from these people ever actually get to the artists that they so adamantly say they defend & support.
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xtago
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_ 		6. October 2011 @ 03:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The wheels turn slowly but the judges and law system are starting to catch on very quick to the silly tricks these companies and people are trying to pull/use.
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