[78-L] Smallest Transcription Disc?

[Michael Biel]

  On 8/5/2010 6:54 PM, goldenbough at arcor.de wrote:
> .
> So I understand that SESAC has distributed their discs free of charge to U.S. stations,
> but charged 'Sender Freies Berlin' when I ordered several records from them. I am
> pretty sure that it was $20 per EP and $50 per LP.
> They may have followed this policy because Europe was not their marketing territory.
>
> Benno
>   in Deutschland

That is probably the case.  SESAC has a special place in my heart.  When 
I was a grad student and managed college radio stations, and then when I 
was a newly minted R-TV professor, I often attended the annual National 
Association of Broadcasters convention.  Major companies had hospitality 
suites, and those of us who were not owners or chief engineers of 
stations were looked upon as freeloaders by many of these companies, 
despite the fact that we often bought a hell of a lot of equipment from 
some of them.  SESAC WELCOMED us.  The actual owners of the organization 
were often there, plied us with loads of food (I survived because of 
their food), booklets, and records.  Why??  Because they knew that even 
if we were not actual broadcasters, we were TRAINING the future actual 
broadcasters, and they wanted us to include info about performance 
rights licensing and payments while remembering that there was more than 
ASCAP and BMI.  Another irony.  During the years I was a student, it was 
under the old copyright law which required payment ONLY for "performance 
for profit".  This meant that those of us with non-commercial 
educational radio stations did not pay performance royalties because we 
were not-for-profit organizations.  They knew they couldn't make a dime 
off of us.  This changed in 1976 when the 1975 copyright law eliminated 
the two words "for profit" from that provision.  Now all stations, even 
our college stations, had to take out ASCAP and BMI licenses, and at 
least all of us who knew about SESAC knew to have our schools also take 
out SESAC licenses.  And for thirty years, every one of my radio 
students learned about ASCAP, BMI, AND SESAC.

And thanks for all those Nat Shilkret LPs, SESAC!!!

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com