[BC] ASCAP and BMI and Rights

[Larry Fuss]

 >> ..but how much advertising would you sell if you
 > didn't play the music?
 >
 > That's not the point.  The broadcast of a song should be considered as a
 > "casual performance" and exempt from performing rights fees.  On the
other
 > hand, how many CDs would be sold without airplay?

>It's very much the point, Larry. You can play open source music if you
want,
and you'd attract an audience commensurate with that music's quality,
exposure and media support. When Kanye West plays his music on Saturday
Night Live or goes on the cover of Rolling Stone, that attracts an audience
to your station if you play his music.

You're STILL missing the point.  Kanye West would probably be on welfare or
selling drugs on the
street corner if his songs were not played on the radio.  Did Kanye write
the songs he performs?
If not, then it is HE who should be paying the song writers for using their
songs to get rich.  He's
making money DIRECTLY off the songs, broadcasters are not.  You can spin it
any way you like, but
your arguments are unpersuasive.  Yes, music does attract an audience, but
that audience is not
paying anything to the radio station to listen to the music.  

LF