Friday, November 20, 2009
Taylor Swift, BMI Sue Idaho Bar
Posted by Amy Atkins on Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:55 PM
Yesterday, TMZ.com reported that an agent for BMI—Broadcast Music Inc.—was doing a little desert recon and found Lewiston bar Boomers' Sports Cellar in violation of playing music without having paid licensing rights.
A case, filed in Idaho District Court in September against TTJ's Inc., d/b/a The Sport Cellar, a/k/a Boomers' Sports Cellar and Club 301 and The Garden, a/k/a Boomers' Garden, Jay B. Starnes, lists among the plaintiffs, Songs of Universal Inc., EMI Blackwood Music Inc., Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI and Taylor Allison Swift, an individual d/b/a Taylor Swift Music.
Boomers' Sports Cellar owner Jay Starnes couldn't be reached for comment, but a daytime employee at the bar said she'd only learned of the allegations after someone from Georgia kept calling repeatedly asking about the story, so she looked it up online.
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BMI is an organization, actually owned and created by broadcasters to collect fees for writers for their music. BMI may be suing a bar. Taylor Swift or Brad Paisley or Toby Keith individually would never do that.
At no time would an artist ever individually sue a bar. Does not make sense to pay a lawyer thousands of dollars to get pennies because they played a song 10 times. But BMI has a bigger stake when they aggregate their artists.
So I doubt Taylor or anyone else is suing the bar.
Do some research before you use TMZ. I was a journalist and that might be my first rule if I ever got back into it.
You should know that quoting TMZ is like asking the scum on the bottom of your boot. In Journalism, they are the lowest form of plant life. So why would you ever quote them? Does it make sense to you that an artist would spend one dime on suing a bar that might have to pay less than $200 to play music for an entire year. When music is the basis for their business, they are supposed to pay something.
But to use TMZ as a source and not call BMI. That is beautiful. As a former journalist, I am amazed.
They get clicks when they bash Chicks.
This time it is Taylor who is "an exibit" as apparently they must have heard her music in the bar. They will pick another girl next time if they think it will drive clicks to their site.
How did this so called PERSON even find our IDAHO! And IF he's that important ! wouldn't he be in / or pick a bar or town that the population has heard ? Guess someone was looking for ATTENTION ! If u asked Miss T S herself , I bet she couldn't find our BELOVED on the map!
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