Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-12-12 | Page 2 | "Canned Music" is up Again

CANNED MUSIC IS S UP LIP AGAIN Sousa and Other Composers Go to Washington to Protest Protest Protest Pro Pro- test Against Passage of Copyright Measure NEW YORK Dec 12 What What at John PhilIp PhllIp Phil Phil- II Ip Sousa once called canned music willbe will willbo be bo a Q subject for tor discussion In congress a again aln this year ar A delegation of composers com corn posers S will go to Washington next week cok to protest against t the copyright ht bill Introduced Introduced Intro Intro- b by Congressman Courrier If this bill becomes a law the use uso of music for tor phonographic records and perforated per pcr- perorated per per- orated rolls for tor mechanical piano players play play- ers era will not be considered an Infringement Infringe infringe- I meat ment of ot cop copyright Composers declare that tho the enactment of this law would be bo boa bea a a. direct blow to the art a as It will rob roh roba roha a composer of tho the right to the product of oC his hie own brain Tho The delegation which will go so to Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington will Include Victor Herbert Horbert John Philip Sousa John Edward A A. A Baldwin Sloan n. Henry Blossom Georgo George Hobart and Glen Ma MacDonough