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Re: ASCAP on Thursday, April 25, 2002
Here's a better cover of the ASCAP two-step: ASCAP Changes Its Tune; Never Intended to Collect Fees for Scouts' Campfire Songs, Group Says "Reeling from the worst public relations disaster since Dan Quayle misspelled "potato," the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) now says that "ASCAP has never sought nor was it ever its intention" to make Girl Scouts pay to sing around a campfire. Other campers? Well, maybe." In '97 we had the ASCAP/ACA Happy Together Tour: "Under the five-year agreement, ACA will pay ASCAP one dollar per camp per year for all ASCAP licensed music. Currently, ACA represents more than 2,200 summer camps nationwide." Finally, in Steve Zeitlin's op-ed piece for the New York Times you can dance to the "Pete Said it Better than I Could Rag": "The interests of songwriters and screenwriters and the corporations they work for have to be balanced against the importance of our collective folk culture. As Mr. Seeger put it from his home in Beacon, N.Y., "The grandchildren should be able to find some other way to make a living, even if their grandfather did write 'How Much Is That Doggie in the Window.'" Excuse me, I have to run out and mail my check to ASCAP. My best friend had a birthday party last week and the grandchildren of those fine ladies from Louisville need their due...
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