Talk:American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers

message: "Radio stations originally only broadcast performers live, the performers working for free. Later, performers wanted to be paid and recorded performances became more prevalent."
This makes no sense.  Some performers played for free at various times in exchange for advertising their upcoming live venue performances, but certainly plenty of early radio performers were paid.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.198.3.57 (talk) 17:28, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Early Radio

message: How can they POSSIBLY charge karaoke places to perform songs?  Say I have a karaoke machine with 6000 songs.  Does this machine submit which song is played back over the internet to a central server? I don't think so. This money they collect must be randomly distributed. If you are an obscure artist on a karaoke machine, you're not going to see much of it, if any, are you?
68.167.161.182 (talk) 01:38, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Karaoke

message: As can be verified on the ASCAP website, there is no comma after "Authors" in the full name of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.  When I attempted to fix this, I found that the correct article title is used as a redirect to the wrong one.  — Athaenara ✉ 00:39, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Article name

message: Can information about the CMA/ASCAP award for Adventurous Programming be added? 131.123.231.143 21:08, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  CMA/ASCAP award for Adventurous Programming 

message: ASCAP has long been controversial on antitrust grounds, as an organization dedicated to copyright pooling by ostensible competitors. They've been sued numerous times, and have lost some cases while winning others. An overview of this would be useful. A few references that specifically discuss ASCAP-related cases (as opposed to only the more general copyright-pooling issue):
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--Delirium 16:43, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  needs some discussion of anti-trust issues 

message: Added info about Nimbit partnership. Included redlink because I'm in the process of writing the article now. ~kevin talkemail  17:43, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: All set, no one even SAW that redlink :) ~kevin talkemail  18:56, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nimbit 

message: How do they determine how much a composer should get?  I would think "Blowing in the Wind" would be worth quite a bit more than some forgettable one-hit-wonder, but also that it would be dependent on the times.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.63.82.53 (talk) 12:47, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  payments to artists? 

message: This article reads inconsistently.  Of particular note: the Non-exclusive section is mostly written in the 2nd-person. ~E 74.60.29.141 (talk) 21:20, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy-edit recommended 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: In some concert booklet, a composer was announced as John Doe ASCAP. What does this mean? Wikispaghetti (talk) 20:48, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use after composer's name 

message: I came to this article from Lawrence Lessig's TED talk. He mentions a more than 400% increase, and that's the only citation. It's not so reliable, as all he shows is a graph with no references. It's also the only source for the same claim in ASCAP boycott. I'll leave a message there as well.
Y. Dongchen (talk) 10:52, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  400% rates increase - source? 

message: Given that Millard Fillmore died 40 years before the founding of ASCAP, it is hard to understand how he could have been one of the founders of the organization. Perhaps the name and the link to Millard Fillmore, the 13th President of the USA, were accidental and were intended to be for someone else. In case that might be true, I will leave it for someone else to correct, as I don't know what might have been intended. Mark C Carlson 16:47, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Millard Fillmore 

message: * Specific text to be  added or removed replaced in lead section, 3rd para : 
:::In 2021, ASCAP collected over US$1.335 billion in revenue and distributed $1.254 billion in royalties to rights-holders, ASCAP maintains a registry of over 16 million works. ASCAP membership surpassed 900,000 and revenues exceeded $1.5 billion in 2022.
* Reason for the change: 
:::update year 2022 membership data
* References supporting change: 
::: all references included in passage above (shown below)
Apriltools (talk) 19:45, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Apriltools, I hate to be a stickler for punctuation, but your proposed statement  is a run-on sentence because there is a comma after the word rights-holders. Please rewrite the sentence so that it is grammatical. Regards,  Spintendo  21:58, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request -- third attempt -- 2022 membership data 

message: * Specific text to be  added or removed replaced in lead section, 3rd para : 
:::In 2021, ASCAP collected over US$1.335 billion in revenue, distributed $1.254 billion in royalties to rights-holders, and maintained a registry of over 16 million works. ASCAP membership surpassed 900,000 and revenues exceeded $1.5 billion in 2022.
* Reason for the change: 
:::update year 2022 membership data
* References supporting change: 
::: all references included in passage above (shown below)
Apriltools (talk) 19:02, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request -- second attempt -- 2022 membership data 

message: Spintendo  21:23, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Reply 11-SEP-2023