tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306216838768951491.post1157366257083262008..comments2023-06-17T03:12:28.120-05:00Comments on Derek Thinks Music: Would You Sue a Restaurant for $30,000 If They Didn't Pay You Royalties?Derek Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08128562427978094361noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306216838768951491.post-20091077209197018002011-09-15T12:35:08.991-05:002011-09-15T12:35:08.991-05:00...And I have been served a proper thrashing.
I&#......And I have been served a proper thrashing.<br /><br />I'll admit when I'm wrong, and from the responses I've been getting I'm clearly off-base.<br /><br />I appreicate the feedback, however. Getting my thoughts corrected is very important to me.Derek Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08128562427978094361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306216838768951491.post-8343842830154673372011-09-14T14:23:52.074-05:002011-09-14T14:23:52.074-05:00I would certainly sue this restaurant... and any o...I would certainly sue this restaurant... and any other business that profited from my creative work... if, I had the money to do so.<br />Thankfully BMI does have deep pockets.<br /><br />I think that BMI is making a statement to small business, and the public in general, that it has to start respecting composers & stop marginalizing their importance. You are not exempt from the laws of the land, just because you are small.<br /><br />How many meals were stolen from this restaurant?<br /><br />How about we, you & I, get all of our friends <br />(and their friends as well)together and go to this restaurant everyday for lunch & dinner and tell the waiter to take a flying leap when he gives us the bill.<br /><br />(It's probably not open the morning, but I guess we could do a break & enter for breakfast)<br /><br />I bet you're even against suing businesses like Youtube,( I'm talking 1,000,000's not 1000's) who make millions of $$ every day in ad revenues, by using the FREE raw materials(music) supplied by composers.<br /><br />Please don't come back to me with that lame excuse, "Ya, but what about all that free exposure?"<br />It's not free. Musicians overpay for it through the unpaid royalties not received.<br /><br /><br />You, as well as too many who call themselves musicians, lack a serious respect for the term "professional musician", in all its permutations.<br /><br />"Created art" is not air. Air is free. It belongs to everybody. Art involves intellectual work.<br /><br />I suspect that you may be a "living room" musician who sustains himself with a non-musical job...music is your sideline that helps you earn extra money in your struggle to meet those monthly car payments.<br /><br />It's the amateurs whom business has taken sides with,because business can make huge profits from amateurs and( here's the kicker) they don't even have to kiss them first.<br /><br />If you look at any professional association, BMI, CAW, AFM, their duty is to protect the well being of its professional membership. That's the folks who actually earn a living using their talents & skills.<br /><br />Your complaint about BMI, as I give it further consideration, is obviously from an amateur "wanna be's" view point, & not to be mistakenly attributed to that of a "professional" musician's point of view.<br /> <br />Amateurs, as we all know, work for free, as they have nothing invested & nothing to lose.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11557278901088179740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306216838768951491.post-41055997781993977712011-08-30T22:00:16.774-05:002011-08-30T22:00:16.774-05:00Wow, that's a sure way to endear yourself to y...Wow, that's a sure way to endear yourself to your customers! /sarcasm<br /><br />That's a nice workaround, haha.Derek Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08128562427978094361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306216838768951491.post-4839723871658428982011-08-30T21:24:36.909-05:002011-08-30T21:24:36.909-05:00I worked at a restaurant where BMI would CONSTANTL...I worked at a restaurant where BMI would CONSTANTLY call to notify us about how we needed to pay them royalties for playing music in our restaurant. The owner of the restaurant figured that since he paid for satellite music stations, that that was good enough. I'm not sure if BMI is still pestering them but this post reminded me of that....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com