After living in Connecticut for some time, I can’t imagine any municipality paying a ridiculous fee like this, most towns are being held to 0% spending increases, where every dollar counts.

These collection agencies have gone way to far. To bad New Milford isn’t suing for the bills being sent to them.

Wow, you people are all so clueless about what PROs do. Your balant ignorance about PROs is a little scary when I consider how much you “know” about copyright law.

Six and a half million works tracked for 375 000 writers, composers, et cetera, comes down to about 17 works per head. Wow, imagine that a work load.

For the fiscal year 2007/2008 BMI collected over 900 million dollars, which was an 8% increase over 2006/2007, which had an increase of 8% over the previous fiscal period.

2007 BMI ‘paid out’ about, heh, 87.2%.
2008 BMI ‘paid out’ about, oh lol, 87.7%.

Hmm, I guess those about .5% represented that 8% increase.

During the fiscal year of 2006/2007 BMI’s scrapped over 12% of its overhead, crist imagine that, a not for profit (percentage stealing) organization ‘having’ to rationalize its own organization. (Guess it’s a bitch when estates wants their own friggin money.)

Oh I almost forgot, not, that BMI kept a bit more (actually about seven million more) then a hundred mill for the fiscal year 2006/2007. For 2007/2008 I guess they felt entitled to oh what looks to be quite close to an 8% increase, if you ask me (but of course there’s a reason for why no one ever does).

I dunno, mayb’ they’re just a bunch of good people in a very very bad place, because I didn’t know the definition of modest, was, well, not so modest.

It’s a really interesting scheme though, especially considered where all that money, who lacks an recipient, ends up, that dough also got ‘paid out’ to a numbered account.

And not to forget all the other organizations, IFPI wants it’s 9 something percent (and you prolly guessed who that cash comes from in reality right), RIAA, DIMA, SESAC, NSAI, NMPA, SGA (I just put SGA in for a laugh, but if you walk all the way you’ll get the point), and on it friggin goes, and don’t forget the flat-rate monopolies, err, kind (sub) organizations that ya have to pay so they can let ya press yer shite on a CD, and of course they are kind enough to inform you that you really really really should register with their mother company, err not for profit organization, for a modest percentage fee, of course.

Any one knows who collects and distribute all them protection money from pubs, clubs, and barber shops? (Oh, sorry, I ment the licensing fees.)

It’s quite astonishing how modest a profit is needed to administer a few million works, but I guess it’s expensive to manage so many databases for the same crap.

Consider CCC, and for the computer literate it’s not that CCC, who kindly takes care of collecting fees for over 300 million works, or rights as they write. They only generate some 130 million dollars a year, since of last year, to the rights holders (for those that pay their homage that is), but still manage to take a ‘modest” fee for ’em self, but, and this is the point it’s not music not for profit kinda modest. And they operate planet wide. However, they of course think it is still a horrid situation, what with since not all authors seem to understand their kindness that they do, nor all the friggin companies, organizations, and governmental bodies, which would be most, that seem to not understand why they need to pay the protection charges, wooops, I mean license fees. According to CCC, like of course all the nice organizations surrounding music, it’s because not everyone is yet educated, i.e. there’s a shit load of us, per de facto, pirates, who still do not understand the import of coughing up money with every whim a certain industry get because you might use royally fucked peoples work. Oh crap, their I go again, I ment royalty based work. (Discalimer: I do not understand why, the above mentioned, CCC think they need to exist in a world where “their” kind of information is supposed to be free, nor do I condone their, however kind, administration.)

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the biggest argument that it would be much more easier, simpler, and cheaper if the federal state, and in some not so democratic countries, the state, didn’t take care of the registration and database management, and collection?

Another argument, if my memory serves me right, was that state governed registration and collection process, was like state monopoly, socialism, and people are supposed to have a choice, and ’em self can manage their own money. And besides, what if the state goes ape shit, then what, who’s to protect these poor sods from the state, eh?

Hurrah, hurrah. For we are liberals, yes? And did it not became easier, simpler, and cheaper, being forced to register with God only seem to know who, getting your money collected, manage, and later, hopefully, distributed to you? And of course it’s always nice when someone else bothers with the whole stuff of protecting your rights, right, I mean other then the (federal) state. And all, and only, for a modest percentage, you know pretty damn like that evil little word spelled T, A, and X, hmm, wait a moment, per definition it is just that — imposed charge, or levy, and you being a tax payer and all.

Any who who knows who collect, manage, and, far from all the time, distribute all ’em greens from mp3 players, USB memory sticks, et cetera in ad absurdum?

If your not such a, hmm how to put this in a nice way, crap I can’t, let just say, if you blow at kissing arses, or just want a couple of cents too much, I can fully understand why you don’t understand where all those hundreds of millions of dollars go. It’s truly a wonder how fast money really can go … poof.

Ooops, I did it again, I’m so sorry I didn’t mean to, I only saw that obnoxious comment by the, apparently, self proclaimed genius who think he gets paid fair and square for what he pay homage to. Friggin donkey’s rump (not too shabby eh).

Oh, yes, by the way, you still have to register with the federal state, or like in retarded democratic countries called kingdoms, the state, to actually get adequate protection for your works. It is actually true, for you know why there’s a lot of dead presidents in numbered accounts, manage by all these ponze scheme organizations? (Claimer: and this is not just because it is crazy hard to find people when your not looking, but it is in their best interest. Literally. Neither is it like they go looking for your heirs, it’s the other way around, which is kind of a paradox, you know like that modest administrative fee and what it is supposed to give you in return, when you think about it.

Ok last note. Concerning SESAC, which is a for profit organization, which is strange, ’cause compared to all them not for profit organizations, shouldn’t they make more profit?

(And PS, of me BS. But what exactly was that form of socialism used in Italy way back when, when the state outsourced state functions to private organizations and companies, to make everything so much better?)

Can either company even sue? Are they government agencies? Why am I getting bills from both ASAP and BMI?

“The money collected does not go to lining the pockets of major recording stars or record companies, Bailey said, but protects behind-the-scene songwriters who rely on performance fees for their income.”
The money collected goes to lining the pockets of major recording stars and record companies, rather than protecting behind-the-scene songwriters who rely on the fees for their income.
Fixed that for you.

A person?s body mass index is a number calculated based on their height and weight. It is used for a comparative analysis of people with similar heights. The body mass index is a brainchild of a Belgian statistician and mathematician named Adolphe Quatelet who created the BMI sometime from1830 to 1850. To calculate the BMI, divide the person?s weight in kilograms by their height in meters squared.

History of Body Mass Index
The Body Mass Index has been in use as a medical benchmark for obesity and is the statistical estimate for Adiposity. It is also the standard employed by the WHO (World Health Organization) for its obesity statistics.

This number was introduced to the public through the government?s efforts to promote sanguinity, nutritional knowledge, and healthy eating habits. This simple statistic has rendered itself very important since it can adapt itself to continuous changes inherent in a community and can indicate the economic development on a nutritional basis.

The BMI was promoted as a simple rule of thumb that any individual of a particular height can calculate at home. It might not be the best possible indicator with regard to weight and health, as it can be unreliable in children, athletes, and the elderly.

It?s quite simple to get an idea for the approximate type of body weight using the BMI. Roughly, an individual with BMI of 19 or less can be classified as underweight and is liable to suffer from malnutrition and other such eating disorders. A BMI of 25 is considered overweight and a BMI of 30 would classify as extremely obese.

The US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey reported that about 59 % of American men and 49% of American women are overweight and over 2% of men and 4% of women were reported to be extremely obese.

These alarming reports only prove the BMI to be a more critical in America today rather than just an easy index for a self- check. It is to be noted that the BMI is not a fully reliable statistic by itself and hence health and nutrition recommendations to an individual cannot be made using just the BMI.