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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO INVESTIGATE COMPOSERS
As a climax of a long drawn out controversy the National Association of Broadcasters have asked the De¬ partment of Justice to investigate certain alleged practices of the American Society of Composers. Oswald F. Schuette, representing the Broadcasters, charged that the Composers are pooling their copyrights in violation of the anti¬ trust law.
Accordingly Attorney General Cummings will ma.ke a thorough investigation of the matter. As a further ef¬ fort to secure a. reduction in the ta.x on broadcasting stations for using copyrighted music the Broadcasters had previously retained Newton D. Ba.ker and the move to a.sk the Department of Justice to intervene has been in the offing for sometime.
However, when the threat was made E. C. Mills of the Composers replied that the Justice Department had yea.rs ago investigated the Society at the request of the motion picture producers, on a simila.r change, and had given the Composers a clean bill of health.
It is said in one usually well-informed quarter that the Composers do not fear the consequences in con¬ nection with the radio investigation regardless of what the Department of Justice may find.
"If the Attorney General should find the Composers guilty of the monopoly charge and order them to dissolve", this man said, "the Composers would of course dissolve. However, I predict it would be but a short time until the large composers would band themselves together again.
Perhaps the smaller ones might do the same but the big fel¬ lows would be in a position to demand the same fees and con¬ tinue to rake in the money. The only difference would be that they would not have to whack up with the little fellows as they are doing now."
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Internal Revenue Bureau collections during March of the federal five per cent excise ta.xes on radio and phonograph records amounted to $149,859.66, according to an official statement just released.
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