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...Authors & Publishers. Instead broadcasters will offer selections from the 200,000 tunes corralled by Broadcast Music, Inc. since it was set up last year as a rival to ASCAP. Among those will be plenty of Latin-American ballads, many a song from the public domain (56 years is the copyright deadline), a handful of current favorites like Practice Makes Perfect, one of the very few hits uncovered to date...
...Bless America; Shout, I Am an American; He's My Uncle. †Copyright 1940 by Chappell & Co. Inc., New York City...
Main line of defense for ASCAP in the battle of the air-waves is the fact that in the mid-twenties its right was recognized under the copyright law to assess broadcasters for etherizing its music. The Society was for a while satisfied with a five per cent cut. But when networks incorporated and, finding themselves not liable to royalty fees, proceeded to juggle their books so as to lessen the amount paid by individual stations, ASCAP began to feel double-crossed. Hence the new contracts placing a seven and one-half per cent dent on income from all chain...
...began taking pot-shots at the cram-parlors, the Administration condemned them as "parasites," and the stage was at length set for the "squeeze play," With the aid of several other publishers and evidence complied by the CRIMSON, Macmillan filed suit against the College Tutoring Bureau for violating the copyright laws...
...parlor admitted piracy and closed its doors, sounding the death knell for all similar organizations, for in accordance with the decision, future tutoring, based on class-lecture and text notes, would be held by the courts as a violation of the copyright laws. of the last power that stands between us and complete isolation in a fascist world. The more threat imposed by such a world can check the hopes of liberal democracy: could even destroy it as effectively as war itself...