realities of the business and it certainly has no
support in the wording or the history of the law.
The law is explicit. The whole purpose of the
paperwork is to identify the phono record player
only. It does not authorize identifying the locations.
PLAY METER: Do ASCAP and the others now
understand the operators' concern to keep
knowledge of their locations to themselves?
GARRETT: This is one thing we tried to get across
TheMuDves
to them. Nobody wants to have as public record the
MUDves
names and addresses of all his locations. If we had
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Mutoscope
to list our locations, this would leave us wide open
to "blue-sky" operations which would move right in
and sell equipment direct to our locations. Look,
someone could easily move right in and show the
location owner how he could make more money if he
had his own equipment. You can take a pencil and
paper and a dozen eggs and if you keep on
multiplying, you'll be a daggone millionnaire. Take
two rabbits, and you can do the same thing. It's
very easy to sell someone on the idea that they can
own their own equipment, but they don't realize the
service that's involved. They don't realize the
records should be changed every week on the
jukebox. I have never seen a location that bought
its own jukebox and didn't experience a fall in its
cashbox take. When the location starts buying
those records out of its own pocket, they don't think
about changing them as often as they should, and
for that reason, the jukebox play falls off.
PLAY METER: It's quite obvious that there is st ill
a lot about the copyright law that has t o be
resolved. Who will decide what goes into the
implementation of this law?
GARRETT: The copyright tribunal which i
composed of five people to be appointed by
Congress will make the final determination. We've
just gotten a list of the five appointees, but as far as
I understand, they haye not been confirmed by the
Senate as of yet. I think what they are going to do is
run a background check on these candidates and
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then confirm them. And it will be their duty to look
reproduction of an
at the law and see how it applies and study the
all-time favorite
recommendations from us and ASCAP and the
others and then come up with something that,
hopefully, will be satisfactory for everyone
concerned.
An automatic motor driven
PLA Y METER: You said you have a list of the
mutoscope reproduction
names. Could you tell us who is being considered for
t hi assignment and what their backgrounds are?
GARRETT: Sure. Those people are Tom Brennan,
MIKE MUNVES CORP . ,
who is a counsel for the Senate copyright
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committee; Clarence L. James, Jr., a Cleveland
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y .
attorney; Frances Garcia, an accountant from
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Austin, Texas; Douglas Culter, a Vietnam veteran
from Indiana; and Mary Lou Berg from West Bend,
We also manufacture the following: "Wheel of Love,"
Wisconsin, who is the former deputy chairwoman of
"Electric Chair," "Matchoreno" roll down game, and
the Democratic National Committee. If confirmed,
the new "Homer" upright baseball. Write or call for
those five people will have the say-so over what
details.
transpires. Now, I might add that these people will
be receiving a salary of $47,500 each per year.
PLA Y METER: What would happen if something
near to what ASCAP or BMI is asking would come
to pass? If the copyright tribunal accepted
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