Broadcasting (Oct 1931-Dec 1932)

The Copyright Puzzle (Continued from page 7) CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Classified advertisements in Broadcasting cost 7c per word for each insertion. Cash must accompany order. Forms close 28th and 13th of month preceding issue. Situations Wanted ACE ANNOUNCER, Past year, program director prominent western station, wants new location. Formerly announcer-organist big Chicago station. Organ programs equal any in America. Six years behind . Mike. Highest endorsement all former employers. Complete record, references, on rel o.uest. Arthur Walker General Delivery, St. | Joseph, Missouri. American announcer technician now employed with prominent Canadian broadcasting organization desires position in United States. All-round experience, excellent references, unmarried. Will go anywhere. Address Box 31, Broadcasting. Help Wanted A newspaper affiliated station wants a keen ambitious salesman as commercial manager. Not a high pressure "spots" rate cutting type of salesman, but one who is filled with persistence — knows how to merchandise an account — develop program ideas for sponsorship. Tell everything about yourself in absolute confidence — your qualifications, experience, references — present and past salary, record of sales, etc. Box 51 Broadcasting. Microphone Service Guaranteed Microphone Repairs — Any make or Model — 24 hour service. Stretched diaphragm double button repairs, $7.50. Others, $3.00. Single button repairs, $1.50. Write for 1933 Catalog with diagrams. Universal Microphone Company, Ltd., Inglewood. California. the affairs of the broadcasters as might a local representative. Mr. Schuette conferred with Mr. Mills on Aug. 30 after which he asked all stations to send him the necessary information concerning their operations so that he would be in position to negotiate their individual "sustaining" fees. He was to have conferred with Mr. Mills in New York again on Sept. 8, but this meeting was deferred until Sept. 12 at the latter's request. Main Terms of Contract SALIENT TERMS' of the new contract are as follows: 8. Under the terms and conditions hereinabove set forth, LICENSEE agrees to pay to SOCIETY, as compensation for the within license, the sum of Dollars ($ ) per annum, payable in equal monthly installments on or before the 10th of each month during the term hereof, plus (a) For the first year of the term hereof, a sum equal to three per cent (3%) of the net receipts (as hereinafter denned) of the LICENSEE from the sale of its broadcasting facilities; and, (b) For the second year of the term hereof, a sum equal to four per cent (4%) of the net receipts (as hereinafter defined) of the LICENSEE from the sale of its broadcasting facilities; and, (c) For the third year of the term hereof, a sum equal to five per cent (5%) of the net receipts (as hereinafter defined) of the LICENSEE from the sale of its broadcasting facilities. (d) The term "net receipts" from the sale of its broadcasting facilities shall refer to the full amount charged by and actually paid to LICENSEE for the use of its broadcasting facilities (sometimes known as "time on the air"), after deducting commissions not exceeding fifteen per cent (15%), if any, paid to the advertising agent or agency (not employed or owned in whole or in part by LICENSEE). LICENSEE shall render monthlv statements to SOCIETY on or before the 10th of each month covering the period of the preceding calendar month on forms supplied gratis by SOCIETY, and shall include in such statements all net receipts, without exception, during the said month from the sale of the broadcasting facilities ("time on the air") of the said station, which said statement shall be rendered under oath and accompanied by the remittance due SOCIETY under the terms hereof. Any such statement may also include a deduction by or credit to the LICENSEE for any amount reported by it as received during a prior month from the sale of its broadcasting facilities but which it has been compelled to refund as a "time discount." In the event that any such item shall be collected after it has been credited or deducted as aforesaid, it shall then be included again in the net receipts of LICENSEE on the monthly statement next succeeding the date of the actual collection. 9. SOCIETY shall have the right, by its duly authorized representative, at any time during customary business hours, to examine the books and records of account of LICENSEE only to such extent as may be necessary to verify any such monthly statement of accounting as may be rendered pursuant hereto; provided that such examination does not interfere with the usual conduct of business bv LICENSEE. It is understood and agreed that SOCIETY shall consider all data and information coming to its attention as a result of any such examination of books and records as completely and entirely confidential. 10. Upon any breach or default of any terms herein contained, SOCIETY may give LICENSEE thirty (30) days notice in writing to repair or correct such breach or default and in the event that such breach or default has not been repaired or corrected within said thirty (30) days, SOCIETY may then forthwith cancel said license. 11. SOCIETY agrees to indemnify, save and hold LICENSEE harmless, and defend LICENSEE from and against any claim, demands or suits that may be made or brought against the LICENSEE with respect to renditions given during the term hereof in accordance with this license of musical compositions contained in SOCIETY'S repertory heretofore or hereafter during the term hereof copyrighted or composed by members of SOCIETY. In the event of the service upon LICENSEE of any notice, process, paper or pleading, under which a claim, demand or action is made or begun against LICENSEE on account of any such matter as is hereinabove referred to, LICENSEE shall forthwith give SOCIETY written notice thereof and simultaneously therewith deliver to SOCIETY any such notice, process, paper of pleading, or a copv thereof, and SOCIETY shall have ' sole and complete charge of the defense of any action or proceeding in which any such notice, process, paper or pleading is served. LICENSEE, however, shall have the right to engage counsel of its own, at its own expense, who may participate in the defense of any such action or proceeding and with whom counsel for SOCIETY shall cooperate. LICENSEE shall cooperate with SOCIETY in every way in the defense of any such action or proceeding, and in any appeals that may be taken from any judgments or orders entered therein, and shall execute all pleadings, bonds or other instruments, but at the sole expense of SOCIETY, that may be required in order properly to defend and resist any such action or proceeding, and properly to prosecute any appeals taken therein. In the event of the service upon LICENSEE of any notice, process, paper or pleading, under which a claim demand or action is made, or begun against LICENSEE on account of the rendition of any musical composition contained in the SOCIETY'S repertory but NOT heretofore or hereafter during the term hereof copyrighted or composed by members of SOCIETY, SOCIETY agrees at the request of LICENSEE to cooperate with and assist LICENSEE in the defense of any such action or proceeding, and in any appeals that may be taken from any judgments or orders entered therein. 12. All notices required or permitted to be given by either of the parties to the other hereunder shall be duly and properly given if mailed to such other party by registered United States mail addressed to such other party at its mam office for the transaction of business. State Stations Donating Time to Political Parties WISCONSIN is furnishing state broadcasting facilities free of charge to all political parties at specified periods each day prior to the state primaries on Sept. 20. Daily, a half hour at noon and an hour in the evening is devoted to political addresses over WHA, operated by the state university at Madison, and WLBL, operated by the Department of Agriculture and Markets at Stevens Point. The stations will make no attempt to censor the speeches, the speakers assuming full responsibility. BOUND to increase the utility of BROADCASTING. A black leatherette binder designed fr 24 issues (one year's copies) of BROADCASTING. 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CLE ARM AN Radio Consultant Cases Prepared for Hearing Investigations 3824 Warren St. N. W. Washington, D. C. 1 Page 30 BROADCASTING • September 15, 1932