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PRESTO
May 26/ 1923
SMALL GOODS AND SUPPLIES
THE BROADCASTING
SITUATION
Representatives of American Society of Composers,
Authors and Publishers Meet in Chicago.
Thirty-five attorneys who represented the various
sections of the American Society of Composers,
Authors and Publishers met in a two-day session at
the Hotel Sherman, Chicago, this week, to discuss
the "whys," "ifs" and "wherefores" of the music
situation. More explicitly, they met to formulate
plans for licensing the use of copyrighted music by
orchestras and radio broadcasting stations.
"The use of copyrighted songs and music by radio
has resulted in an enormous slump in royalties to
composers and publishers," Attorney E. S. Hartman,
of Chicago, chairman of the western division of the
society, explained. "The radio wears out a song in
no time.
"Now, when you go into a music store and buy a
piece of music, you of course have a right to that
music and may play it as much as you wish for your-
self and your friends. But you have no right to
turn around and broadcast that song, or have your
orchestra play it. for your own profit. The New
York Supreme Court has ruled that to do that you
must obtain the permission of the owner of the copy-
right.
"What we are going to do is to try to plan some
means of issuing licenses, liroadcastin "stations and
orchestras can then obtain permission to play copy-
righted pieces by taking out a license, and the royal-
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The violin family and the strings required for the
separate users of the violin, violoncello, and contra-
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Formerly strings were made of catgut, but in real-
ity the modern strings are made from the intestines
of sheep or from wire, and may be either plain or
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THE IVORY TRADE.
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Dealings in Abyssinian ivory affords a line oppor- carefully selected and graded as to size so that they
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Cecil B. Cross, U. S. consul at Aden, Arabia, through instruments are stretched on frames for three or four
which port the bulk of Abyssinian ivory reaches the days. The covered strings are finished on a special
world. Before the war an average of 5,000 pounds lathe which covers them with floss silk or fine silver-
of ivory was shipped annually to the United States plated copper wire, or even silver.
through that port, but the direct shipments have
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consul, who says India reships the best of the
Abyssinian ivory to England, which in turn ships it
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chances for profits for the ingenious middlemen.
TRADE MARK TERM.
For how long is a trade mark good? Can it be re-
newed after it has expired? These questions are fre-
quently asked. The answer is twenty years. It may
lie from time to time renewed for like periods. See
17. S. compiled statutes, Sec. 9497.
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year. Larger places of amusement and restaurants
and dance halls are charged from $30 to $150 and
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stations a couple of hundred dollars, the larger, per-
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