{"id":6029,"date":"2016-05-25T07:03:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T07:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/05\/25\/famous-us-venues-refuse-to-pay-songwriters\/"},"modified":"2016-05-25T07:03:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T07:03:07","slug":"famous-us-venues-refuse-to-pay-songwriters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2016\/05\/25\/famous-us-venues-refuse-to-pay-songwriters\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous US Venues Refuse to Pay Songwriters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/c1\/DanceValley2009.jpg\/250px-DanceValley2009.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"217\" height=\"145\" \/><br \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascap.com\" target=\"_blank\">American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers<\/a> (ASCAP) has filed 10 separate copyright infringement actions against  bars and restaurants nationwide, arising out of the unauthorized public  performance of its members&#8217; copyrighted musical works.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Music is enormously valuable to bars and restaurants, creating an  emotional connection with patrons and providing the right ambience to  attract and retain customers,&#8221; commented ASCAP Executive Vice President  of Licensing Vincent Candilora. &#8220;Hundreds of thousands of well-run  businesses across the nation recognize the importance of paying music  creators to use their music, and understand that it is both the lawful  and right thing to do. However, each of the establishments sued today  has decided to use music without compensating songwriters. By filing  these actions, ASCAP is standing up for songwriters whose creative work  brings great value to all businesses that publicly perform their music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Over the past two years, and in many cases longer, ASCAP has made  numerous attempts at the establishments listed below to offer a license  and educate the business owners about their obligations under federal  copyright law. Two of them, The Ranch in Austin and the Barbary in  Philadelphia, were delinquent licensees that were terminated for  non-payment at the end of 2015. Despite these efforts, the owners of the  establishments listed below repeatedly have refused to take or renew a  license. Instead, they have continued to perform the copyrighted musical  works of ASCAP&#8217;s songwriter, composer, and music publisher members for  the entertainment of their patrons without obtaining permission to do  so.<\/p>\n<p> Establishment (City, State):<br \/> FuZion (Huntington Beach, CA)<br \/> Studio 8 (San Jose, CA)<br \/> Black Bear Saloon (Hartford, CT)<br \/> Sportsline Bar &amp; Grill (Lawrenceville, GA)<br \/> Perception Lounge (Chicago, IL)<br \/> Stonewood Tavern (Peabody, MA)<br \/> The Tangiers (Minneapolis, MN)<br \/> Arden Kitchen &amp; Bar (Port Jefferson, NY)<br \/> The Barbary (Philadelphia, PA)<br \/> The Ranch (Austin, TX)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: ASCAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) has filed 10 separate copyright infringement&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}