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From: flip <flippo@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: July/August RIAA Boycott
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In article <%xOTa.133681$ye4.95086@sccrnsc01>,
"Christopher Blaszczykowski" <cblash@mchsi.com> wrote:
> Does anyone ask the RIAA to whom they pay royalty for releasing recording of
> Classical music like Chopin, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Bach, Strauss
> (entire family) and so on...? I bet that non of the members of this
> families or countries of composers receive any penny for using and
> recording their music!!! And this include live concerts, TV, Radio, Films
> and so on!!!! Unless they present proof of paying we have leverage and we
> can countersued them for making millions of dollars illegally. I never heard
> anything and anywhere and anyone touching this issue!?
>
All of the ones you've cited have fallen into the public domain many
years ago, so the composers are not entitled to royalties.
The artists who record them, however, probably received some
compensation.
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