Self Bias Resistor writes "According to a post on the Arcade-Museum forums, ASCAP is demanding an annual $800 licensing fee from at least one operator of a Guitar Hero Arcade machine, citing ASCAP licensing regulations regarding jukeboxes. An ASCAP... ...full story at slashdot
from slashdot on Wed, Dec 16 2009
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| 23 Jun 09 |
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ASCAP Wants To Be Paid When Your Phone Rings » slashdot gerddie notes a piece up on the EFF site outlining the fairly outlandish legal theories ASCAP is trying out in their court fight with AT&T. "ASCAP (the same folks who went after Girl Scouts for singing around a campfire) appears to believe that every... |
| 30 Jun 10 |
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ASCAP War On Free Culture Escalates » slashdot An anonymous reader writes "After ASCAP declared war on free culture and Creative Commons responded on the incident, the war of words is escalating. Drew Wilson of ZeroPaid has been following this story closely. The EFF responded to the ASCAP letter,... |
| 25 Jun 10 |
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ASCAP Declares War On Free Culture, EFF » slashdot Andorin writes "According to Drew Wilson at ZeroPaid and Cory Doctorow, the ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), a US organization that aims to collect royalties for its members for the use of their copyrighted works, has began... |
| 29 Jul 10 |
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ASCAP Refuses To Debate Lessig » slashdot An anonymous reader writes "Back in June ASCAP oddly declared war on free culture, specifically calling out Creative Commons, EFF and Public Knowledge, making a number of false statements about all three. The war of words continued as the three groups... |
| 15 May 09 |
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ASCAP Starts To Act Like the RIAA » slashdot Scott Lockwood writes "Below Average Dave, a Dr. Demento style parody artist, has been shut down by the ASCAP. This collective, acting as badly as the RIAA, is now attempting to ignore the 2 Live Crew Supreme Court decision that parodies are new... |