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Joe Scarborough: “But these servers will also be able to provide the restaurant owners in the future services that will allow them just to…”

On the recordMarch 25, 1998
But these servers will also be able to provide the restaurant owners in the future services that will allow them just to pipe in music by BMI or just to pipe in music by ASCAP. And that technology is available today and certainly will be used, I predict, in the next few years to make it easy for restaurant owners to do that. So it is a very easy thing to do. It is very doable. You do not have to call your local radio station to see what the play list is. And I suspect that most of the people that were behind this amendment know that already.
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Joe Scarborough
Florida

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of the Sensenbrenner amendment on music licensing for restaurant owners.

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