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8/4/39
NAB AND ASCAP FAIL TO COME TO TERMS AT PARLEY
Another long-drawn-out battle of words betvTeen the National Association of Broadcasters and the American Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers was foreshadowed this week after an NAB-ASCAP conference in New York failed to bring about an accord on the terms broadcasters propose for copyright music.
Neville Miller, President of the NAB and Chairman of the Copyright Committee, stated after the conference that the organized broadcasters immediately will begin to develop other sources of music to free the radio industry of dependence upon the ASCAP.
The NAB Copyright Committee will meet in New York again next Wednesday to consider means of setting up the copyright music source. A similar undertaking was attempted several years ago and an independent music bureau was set up, but the project never proved successful and the material later was sold.
As the present ASCAP contracts with radio stations do not expire until December 31, 1940, no crisis is at hand, and the broadcasters and copyright owners have a year and a quarter to shadow box before a new contract is drawn up.
The NAB wants a uniform contract calling for clearance of the copyri^t fees at the source, with royalties to be paid only on programs using ASCAP music. Under the present contract the stations pay 5 percent of net receipts to ASCAP,
Explaining that the broadcasters now pay the Society about $4,000,000 annually and the figure is rapidly rising, Mr. Miller told New York newspaper men that the broadcasters had paid the Society about $20,000,000 for the rigiit to use its music in the past six years. He added that while the broadcasters expect to continue to pay substantial sums for the use of music, he bel“' ieved they could no longer remain so largely dependent upon a single source.
The main objectives of the broadcasters, he said, are:
To defend themselves against the Society’s requirement that they pay percentage-wise on all programs regardless of whether or not they use ASCAP music.
To reduce the Society’s toll of $4,000,000 a year.
To bring about a more equitable distribution of the charges among the broadcasters themselves.
To foster, encourage and promote the writing of new music and lyrics by giving opportunities to be heard to new com¬ posers and authors.
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