I don’t have a link...just my own memory of the incident, but I believe at one time ASCAP sued the Girl Scouts for singing “God Bless America”.
That is so ironic, because the Scouts were a favorite charity of Irving Berlin, and he even appeared with them singing that very song in the movie starring Ronald Reagan called “This Is the Army”.
I am a songwriter myself, and belong to BMI, and although I have received airplay and Internet downloads of a number of my songs, BMI has never contacted me in the thirty years of my association with them! Go figure.
it was to the boy scouts.
but given the hollyweird demographic it would explain their ongoing hatred of the boy scouts.