ASCAP Bill of Rights

America, please help me out by supporting the ASCAP Bill of Rights for Composers, Songwriters, Authors, and Publishers. We need the support of the people in order to get our rights properly enforced and acknowledged! This "Bill of Rights" was signed by over 9700 ASCAP members--including ME! So please, take a visit to this site by clicking the link below...read the Bill and read the accompanying Position Paper. It's well worth it. Composers like me will thank you for it. We might even give you a hug.



For those of you who don't know what ASCAP is, it is a not-for-profit performing rights organization for composers, songwriters, authors, and publishers. It stands for:

American
Society of
Composers,
Authors, and
Publishers

That means, they protect our rights (i.e. Bill of Rights) and maintain our rights (i.e. intellectual and physical property ownership rights). They also manage the distribution of royalties for performances, radio broadcasts, movie/CD sales, and other things dealing with performance/recording/broadcast. It's also great for networking and they maintain a library of resources on a variety of industry topics, for members' benefits, as well as offering many conventions, expos, and perks (discount insurance, magazine discounts, etc.). We also publish quarterly magazines for members and the music industry in general. We're the oldest performing rights organization (the FIRST, in fact) and have the most members of any P.R.O. More information about ASCAP can be found on our website:

ASCAP

And if you want to see my signature on the Bill, you have to scroll through about 50 pages of signatures or so. But isn't it fun to see my name in print? I think so, at least...

Click here to view the bill, paper, and signatures...



Thanks for your support!

And for those of you who didn't know, I was featured in an article in said magazine in their summer issue, as part of their "Stepping Out" column featuring notable member accomplishments, under the "Honored" category (among Premiered, Honored, Featured, etc). Check it out here:

ASCAP Playback Magazine: Stepping Out

That's all for now, remembers: support the starving artists! Consider adding the ASCAP Foundation to your yearly charitable non-profit organization contribution budget:

ASCAP Foundation

--CP