{"id":2652,"date":"2007-08-22T10:11:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T18:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/08\/amateur_guitarists_everywhere_are_wondering_whether_open-mic_nights_might_be_next.html"},"modified":"2007-08-22T10:11:05","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T18:11:05","slug":"amateur_guitari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/amateur_guitari.html","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Guitarists Everywhere Are Wondering Whether Open-Mic Nights Might Be Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Spitzer turns his finely tuned ear towards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/08222007\/news\/regionalnews\/knockoffs_spur_fake_band_ban.htm\">the inherent fraudulence of cover bands<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Knockoff music acts that impersonate the real performers can face fines up to $15,000 under a new law in New York.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Music artists work for years to build names for themselves in the entertainment industry,&#8221; Gov. Spitzer said yesterday after signing the amendments to the Arts and Cultural Affairs Law. &#8220;We should not allow others to impersonate their work and profit from that deception.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Called the &#8220;Truth in Music Advertising Law,&#8221; it prohibits copycat performances that attempt to cash in through false and misleading representations like names, billings and promotions similar to the original artists.<\/p>\n<p>The measure was inspired when well-known recording artists like the Platters, the Coasters and the Drifters suffered financial losses when their acts and routines were copied without permission, according to the governor&#8217;s office.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Spitzer turns his finely tuned ear towards the inherent fraudulence of cover bands: Knockoff music acts that impersonate the real performers can face fines up to $15,000 under a new law in New York. &#8220;Music artists work for years to build names for themselves in the entertainment industry,&#8221; Gov. Spitzer said yesterday after signing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}