SPRINGSTEEN IS STICKING IT TO THE MAN . . . AGAIN
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN is a man of the people, and he’s proving that yet again.
ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, has filed a lawsuit against a New York bar called Connolly’s Pub & Restaurant.
Apparently, a cover band played a few Springsteen songs at the bar but the bar never paid ASCAP their annual $2,700 licensing fee. Thus, they say, the bar was profiting from the music without paying for it.
ASCAP added Bruce’s name to the lawsuit as a plaintiff but they never asked him if they could do that. And he’s not happy. As soon as he heard about it, he demanded to have his name removed.
His reps released a statement saying, quote, “Bruce Springsteen had no knowledge of this lawsuit, was not asked if he would participate as a named plaintiff, and would not have agreed to do so if he had been asked.”
A spokesperson for ASCAP later said that they were merely trying to protect the copyrights held by all songwriters. (There’s no word on whether or not they’ve removed Bruce’s name from the lawsuit.)
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February 5th, 2010 at 10:07 pm
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