Good Vibrations, Good Morning....

Hopefully, NASA sends up the morning wakeup call as an OGG (MP3) instead
of playing it over the ratty comm.

Did NASA pay the Beach Boys a royalty for broadcasting their song?

Or, is NASA avoiding the royalty by only broadcasting a portion of the
song?

Or, did the Beach Boys give their permission to play it? It's just good
advertising.

Or, is the wakeup call a don't ask, don't tell, royalty free broadcast;-)

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I don't believe they broadcast a long enough clip to make them liable
actually.

Brian

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Hopefully, NASA sends up the morning wakeup call as an OGG (MP3) instead
of playing it over the ratty comm.

Did NASA pay the Beach Boys a royalty for broadcasting their song?

Or, is NASA avoiding the royalty by only broadcasting a portion of the
song?

Or, did the Beach Boys give their permission to play it? It's just good
advertising.

Or, is the wakeup call a don't ask, don't tell, royalty free broadcast;-)

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Craig Fink
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Yeah, and if it's over the regular comm the quality might be so bad that
the astronauts might prefer not to hear the entire song. Or, maybe the
astronauts have their own copy of it, so they can play the entire high
quality version if they want to listen to it.

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On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:55:27+0000, Brian Gaff wrote:

I don't believe they broadcast a long enough clip to make them liable
actually.

Brian

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I don't believe they broadcast a long enough clip to make them liable
actually.

Brian


If I still have enough brain cells functioning to remember correctly, I
think you only need to play 8 measures to have to pay.

My guess is 99% of all artist wave the fee -- if there is one.

Danny Deger