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...Shot of Pizazz. Sinatra's telegram was transparently timed to pump a little publicity pizazz into the weary, long-running argument between 33 members of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and the organization known as Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI). For a generation, ASCAP has been collecting flat, annual fees from broadcasting stations for broadcast performances of its members' works. In 1939, some 250 pinched broadcasters, including all the major networks, formed a rival organization, BMI, and the two have been skirmishing ever since. The point currently at issue: Does the broadcasters' control...
Before a House Judiciary subcommittee last fall (TIME, Oct. 1), ASCAP Sympathizer Sinatra charged that Mitch Miller had tried to foist BMI songs on him while Frankie was at Columbia (Miller produced statistics in an effort to disprove the charge). In his telegram last week, Sinatra stated that Miller, Frankie's longtime bogey, had admitted accepting "large sums of money" from writers whose songs he recorded. Sinatra quoted Miller's words from sworn testimony: "Bob Merrill [responsible for If I Knew You Were Coming, I'd 've Baked a Cake and other hit tunes] would bring...
...BMI royalties for each performance of the commercial...
...BMI's Case. BMI President Carl Haverlin offered statistics to show that music by ASCAP composers is far from being pushed off the air, that approximately 85% of performances on TV and 75% on radio today are of compositions licensed by ASCAP. Added Haverlin: 1) BMI's revenues are only about one-third of ASCAP's; 2) the same charges had been made in 1952 to the Department of Justice, which investigated BMI and took no action; 3) ASCAP itself had been found guilty of monopolistic practices by a federal court in 1948, after which...
Unless they are licensed by BMI...