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To: Senator Goldwater
"I have no doubt the EIB network has the permission of the publisher to use the track."

They don't need permission any more than your local DJ needs permission to play a Michael Jackson song. They just pay the stardard ASCAP/BMI roaylty, and be done with it. No problem.

Rush will never drop the song, which is like a multi-million dollar trademark. Generations from now, The Pretenders will be remembered only as the folks who played the Rush theme song. Like Rossini is best remembered as the guy who wrote the "Lone Ranger" theme. (And The Pretenders are no Rossini.)
52 posted on 03/04/2003 8:14:35 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed
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To: Beelzebubba
"They just pay the stardard ASCAP/BMI roaylty, and be done with it. No problem."

And that's what I meant: EIB is in compliance with whatever existing requirements are needed to broadcast the song.

57 posted on 03/04/2003 8:33:10 PM PST by Senator Goldwater
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