24
PRESTO
February 9, 1924.
outlined the demands the broadcasters voted them
down on the ground that they regarded their "airing"
of the copyright music without direct income in the
nature of advertising matter. Then the association
Year Old Battle of American Society of Au- was formed and the fight was on in earnest.
thors, Composers and Publishers
The broadcasters made arrangements with "inde-
pendent"' publishers, composers, and authors, whereby
for Control of Copyrights Is
music and songs copyright outside of the American
Where It Started.
society would be turned over to the radio stations
Theaters, movies, and music teachers have entered for public judgment as to merit.
The program picked up for a while and then the
into the year old battle between the National Asso-
ciation of Broadcasters and the American Society society played an unexpected card by bringing into
of Authors, Composers and Publishers over broad- their fold the writers and publishers of the new hits,
casting of songs and music controlled by copyrights although rights to use the hits continued with the
of society members. While active participation by broadcasters. For a time the battle raged, with favor
these new elements on the side of the broadcasters is on one side and then on the other, with the radio
in formative stage, steps also are contemplated by public totally unaware beyond scraps of information
which the the radio audiences will have a chance to here and there of developments.
Recently the American Society of Authors, Com-
give expression to its views.
E. F. McDonald, Jr., Chicago, owner of station posers, and Publishers renewed its demands, raising
WJAZ and president of the National Association of the ante from $250 to $5,000 a year, graded according
Broadcasters, is authority for the statement that the to a station's theoretical audience. With the society
light stands, so far as the broadcasters are concerned, were joined some authors, composers and publishers
exactly as it stood a year ago, except that renewed of so-called classical music under copyright.
The field covered by the demands of the society
"pep" has been injected by the society's inclusion on
has taken on still another new phase in the contention
their side of some publishers of classical music.
In the spring of 1923, while the public was revelling of the society that if an orchestra connected to a
in an airful of jazz and near jazz the American So- broadcast station played copyright matter in the din-
ciety of Authors, Composers, and Publishers pre- ing room of a hotel it would have to pay the broad-
sented demands upon the broadcasting stations of cast fee, whether or not the music was put on the
the country for payments, the sums to be fixed ac- air.
cording to the importance of the station, for the
NEW MISSOURI FIRM.
privilege of putting on the ether songs and music
The music department of the Blue Lantern Music
copyright by members of the society. This was
& Tea Shoppe, St. Francois, Mo., was recently opened
resisted.
Broadcasting programs were shattered pretty badly in the Field-Lippman piano store building. The store
in quality for a time, and the quandary in which the carries a full line of Victrolas and Victor records, and
stations found themselves when it came to arranging is up to date as to its methods of exploiting the goods.
programs without the range of the society's copy-
The Ingram Pharmacy, Pittsburgh, Pa., which has
rights led to a call for a meeting of radiophone own-
ers. This was held at the Drake Hotel April 25 and a music section, was recently held up at the point of
26 last. After a representative of the American So- guns and robbed of a day's receipts from the sale of
ciety of Authors, Composers, and Publishers had records.
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