General Music Chat

Help protect your rights as a composer of music.
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Please go to this page and sign this 'Musician's Bill of Rights.'
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http://www.ascap.com/rights/billofrights.aspx
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A.S.C.A.P. is here to help us.

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Thanks for posting this!

I will have to look into all this with a little more detail. I mean I did the read and all. I am just really suspiceous by nature. I always have to think out what their angle may be on all this. And of what possable benefit "my" signature would be.

You need not be suspicious of A.S.C.A.P.
They are one of the 'good guys.'
It's an organization made up of musicians, for musicians.
They've been around for many, many decades, and have a tremendous amount of big names as memebers.
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Set aside an hour; make a pot of coffee, and go to their home page and start exploring. See for yourself.
The address is:
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http://www.ascap.com/index.html
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For those of you who don't know, A.S.C.A.P. stands for
"The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers."
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If you wrote a song: that's YOU. These people are your friends.

Here's an overview of A.S.C.A.P.
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This is a direct quote from a page at the A.S.C.A.P. site:
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About ASCAP
Established in 1914, ASCAP is the first and leading U.S. Performing Rights Organization representing the world's largest repertory totaling over 8.5 million copyrighted musical works of every style and genre from more than 320,000 composer, lyricist and music publisher members. ASCAP has representation arrangements with over 90 music rights organizations such that the ASCAP repertory is represented in nearly every country around the world. ASCAP protects the rights of its members and foreign affiliates by licensing the public performances of their copyrighted works and distributing royalties based upon surveyed performances. ASCAP is the only American Performing Rights Organization owned and governed by its writer and publisher members. www.ascap.com

I have a respet for your opinion and I will do my research as you request.