RE: ASCAP sues the Girl Scouts -Reply

On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, R. Creg Bradley (449) wrote:
>
> Unless filks charge admission, either directly, or indirectly, such as
> requiring membership in a convention to be able to attend the filk, we
> should be O.K. However, the thing we have to watch carefully is the filk
> focused conventions such as perhaps OVFF (I'm unsure whether this would
> qualify, never having been there). If any copyrighted music is performed
> within membership restricted areas, even in panels for demonstration
> purposes, then royalty payment for use of that song or songs would be
> due.
>

replyHmmmm...I know that non-profit radio stations are exempt from paying royalties; this is how a song can become a college radio hit and make no money for the artist. It may be that conventions incorporated as 501(c)3 non-profits are exempt as well; a good intellectual property rights lawyer should probably be consulted.

R. Received on 08/22/96