http://www.boiseweekly.com/Cobweb/archives/2009/11/20/taylor-swift-bmi-sue-idaho-bar Comments On: Taylor Swift, BMI Sue Idaho Bar by Amy Atkins en-us Copyright 2010 Boise Weekly. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Boise Weekly readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Boise Weekly. wil@desert.net (Boise Weekly Webmaster) Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:01 -0700 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by msspike]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:01:44 -0700 Boise Weekly
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.



Posted by Matt12]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:52:21 -0700 Boise Weekly