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1. about 1 month ago on Drabble

   No. but SHE is…

2. 8 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   Jimmy is an Auburn alum.

3. 9 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   But there is absolutely NO correlation between an original piece or artwork being sold and resold between individuals, and a song being played in public.

4. 9 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   kiapre, you’d better believe that if copies of an artist’s work are created and sold, they ARE getting paid for it one way or another.

5. 9 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   Yep, and no one seems to complain when an author gets money from each of his books that is sold. But let a songwriter expect to get money every time his song is used, and suddenly words like “scam” and “mafia” get thrown around.

6. 9 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   Speaking specifically of ASCAP, when we signed up, they told me I HAD to join this particular plan, one that charged a minimum that I could only meet if I doubled our ticket prices AND sold twice as many tickets as we had seats, to every concert. I did some digging and found a different plan, but when I asked about that I was told “Oh no, that’s not good for you, because since there’s no minimum you’ll pay a higher percentage; 1.2 is more than .8. you see.” So I explained how I could never hit the minimum anyway under Plan A, but under Plan B it might cost me more per concert, but in the end that would still be less than the minimum they wanted in Plan A. I then said “Now that YOU know that I know how to do math, do you want to try again?”

7. 9 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   PROs (Performance Rights Organizations) are a great idea, but horribly executed. (ASCAP is one of the US PROs; BMI and SESAC are the others. I think this is the only country with more than one PRO.) Making sure that creators get paid when someone uses their work is a wonderful thing. Not breaking down “users” into enough categories is bad. (My 100-seat, non-profit, one-concert-per-month room is charged the same rate as a 2,500-seat, for profit, 8-shows per week venue.) Paying from the top down is bad (i.e, those who earned the most are paid first, so those who earned the least aren’t paid what they earned, or sometimes aren’t paid anything at all, because after paying expenses and paying the people at the top, there’s nothing left.) Having workers on commission is bad (because they are in it to get the most money, rather than working for a deal that benefits everybody; venues will shut down forever for no other reason than they can’t afford the PRO fees.) Not listening to their customers (i.e, the music users) is bad. For more than a year, one of the PROs has been sending me contracts, telling me that I have to sign or else. BUT, they contracts already have information pre-filled in… and some of it is wrong, including my address. I can’t and won’t sign a contract that says my address is that of a different business; I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t even be legal. So for more than a year I have been telling them “You have to change this to the CORRECT info or I can’t sign.” They have ignored me for more than a year…

8. over 1 year ago on Tank McNamara

   Trump cheats at golf, too? Figures…

9. over 1 year ago on Tank McNamara

   Do you use the word “woke” because “compassionate” and “enlightened” are too hard to spell?

10. over 1 year ago on B.C.

    You are correct.