Please Forgive my rant folks . . . 



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Del Baker-Robertson,Marketing Director AAM wrote: 

 >> AAM anticipated that the BMI letter would raise

 >> a lot of questions . . . .is one of your

 >> membership benefits. 



 

Del, 



Oh wow -- is the AAM working with BMI? ? Is BMI using the AAM's mailing list?? 

Have you been following this music liscensing thread on the AASLH-Small Museums 

list?? On that list many museums have complained of outright harassment by BMI 

telemarketers!? Is this uninvited attention (harassment) one of our "AAM Member 

Benefits!?" Thanks but no thanks! ...I want to belong to an organization that 

is sympathetic to the needs and realities of a small museum. An organization

that understands small museums are already over-worked, over-stressed, and

over-taxed without having to add a letter/phone call fishing for a music license

to our list of worries!?  



Of course playing music without a license is wrong, and I commend AAM for doing 

"damage control" and working on a Music Licensing Fact Sheet (perhaps a too 

little-too late), but as a SMALL museum (who plays NO music in our galleries or 

events), I resent hearing that the AAM is willingly cooperating (nay - enabling) 

these strong-arm thugs!   



- David - 

Curator of a small-SILENT museum that is

reconsidering its AAM institutional membership

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