[78-L] Smallest Transcription Disc?

[David Lennick]

And can anyone here name any music bearing the SESAC imprint? Actually, I can..Miklos Rozsa's Concert Overture, 3 Hungarian Sketches, and Theme-Variations and Finale (Decca DL 9966, Varese Sarabande VC 81058) are SESAC.

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> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 21:49:27 -0400
> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Smallest Transcription Disc?
> 
> 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
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