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Enforcement of Music, Movie Licensing Is Stepped up Unbelted Bus Drivers June 15, 2010 Enforcement of music, movie licensing is stepped up NEW YORK CITY — The minding them if they play record- movies and television programs primer on music and movie from the license holder. three organizations that license bar, ed music or show movies or televi- for artists, writers, and studios. licensing. “By playing pre-recorded music elevator and motorcoach operators sion programs for their onboard The notices have been so wide- The association pointed out (and movies) to the passengers on to play recorded music, videos, customers they must pay a licens- spread the United Motorcoach As- that music and movies are like all your coach, you are essentially pro- DVDs, CDs and tapes for their cus- ing fee. sociation has been inundated with property: they belong to the people viding a public performance of that tomers have stepped up enforce- The notifications to coach op- calls from members with questions who created and own them. To le- (material),” UMA points out. ment of federal copyright laws. erators have come from ASCAP, about the licensing. gally play recorded music or show It doesn’t matter if a passenger Motorcoach operators across BMI and Motorcoach Movies UMA issued an electronic flyer movies to the public, operators brings the music or movie onboard; the U.S. have been sent notices re- which handle licensing of music, to members, providing them with a must, by law, obtain permission CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 c NW operators embrace rival to Sen. Murray SEATTLE — Motorcoach op- erators here may have found a can- didate they can support in their ef- fort to defeat their No. 1 political enemy: Democrat U.S. Sen. Patty Murray. He’s two-time gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi, one of the Pitching In state’s top Republicans, who has officially entered the Aug. 17 state Dallas-area motorcoach com- primary. panies volunteered buses to “I’ll be supporting him because transport hundreds of people he’ll have the best chance of win- last month for the funeral of ning in the general election,” said Jack Colley, chief of the Texas Thomas C. Casazza, president of Department of Public Safety the Northwest Motorcoach Division of Emergency Manage- Association. ment. During his tenure, Colley Operators in the state have helped coordinate statewide vowed to work to unseat Murray emergency services through- because of legislation she authored out Texas, many involving bus last December that exempts King evacuations. See story Page 6. County from the federal charter service rule. Her measure prohibits the Fed- eral Transit Agency from spending Unbelted bus drivers are courting trouble any money to enforce the rule in Motorcoach drivers hear it Not only does it put them at you’re driving an empty bus,” says school bus drivers who were not King County, which cleared the path from their bosses all of the time: odds with federal safety regula- Robert Crescenzo, vice president of wearing seatbelts while driving for King County Metro Transit to “Be sure to buckle up.” tions and possibly jeopardize their Lancer Insurance, who advises the empty buses. operate charters in the Seattle area. When they’re driving a loaded jobs, but if they have an accident it motorcoach industry on driver safe- The latest occurred in Utah last The agency currently is run- bus, they usually heed the call. can have devastating results. Mo- ty issues and accident prevention. month when a 55-year-old school ning parking lot shuttles for the After all, they may have 50 pairs of torcoach drivers who are not wear- “We don’t drive our personal cars bus driver lost control of her empty city’s professional baseball and eyes watching them. ing their seatbelts are much more that way, so why should we drive a bus while coming down a slight in- soccer teams and plans to do them But, when their buses are apt to suffer serious injuries or bus without using our seatbelts.” cline. The bus ran off the road and for the Seattle Seahawks football empty, they sometimes ignore it. even death in an accident. The issue has surfaced in the crashed through a series of fences team in the fall. And that, safety experts warn, can “It’s a terrible idea to drive wake of the fourth recent fatal ac- before spinning around and ejecting CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 c lead to big trouble. without your seatbelt, even when cidents involving motorcoach or CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 c See the City, While you Wait Free smart car loaner vehicle* Available at all Daimler Buses Service Centers. * Some restrictions apply Metro New York • Metro Orlando • Greensboro • 800.882.8054 ABC C o m p A n i e s QualityQuality Pre-OwnedPre-Owned Equipment...Equipment... 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WASHINGTON — Charter According to police records, of- the current fiscal year, the agency plained in recent weeks they have dmv.dc.gov, and click on “busi- operators planning trips here this ficers issued 97 tickets in March, issued only 9,337 permits, well had difficulty purchasing permits ness” under services and then summer better make sure their April and May of this year, com- below the pace to reach the 29,001 and reaching the DMV by tele- click on “trip permit.” buses display up-to-date District pared with 63 during the same that were issued during fiscal phone, although DMV officials Operators purchasing their of Columbia trip permits. three-month period in 2009. Dur- 2009. say they have not heard such com- permits online can print them and If they don’t, chances are pretty ing last year’s peak months of June, Officials in D.C. aren’t sure plaints or experienced any major have them available immediately. good they’ll be ticketed and fined. July and August, police wrote 111 what’s behind the drop, although problems. Those who do not want to pay on- That’s the word from the D.C. tickets. the economy is certain to be a sig- They acknowledged there was line can mail a check to the DMV Metropolitan Police, which re- Tickets for trip-permit viola- nificant factor. a problem in May with the online and the permit will be mailed ports an increase the past three tions carry a civil penalty of $500. Additionally, some operators purchasing system for permits, but within 15 days. months in the number of commer- In addition to the increase in reportedly have stopped going into they say that issue has been Permits also may be picked up cial buses without valid permits, tickets, the D.C. Department of D.C. and, instead, begun dropping resolved. in person, or purchased at the DMV and if the trend continues over the Motor Vehicles reports that the off passengers at METRO rail The DMV said the permits, information desk at 95 M Street busy summer season the rise in the number of trip permits issued to stops in Virginia to avoid having to which cost $50 for each bus and SW, which is open 8:15 a.m. to 4 number of citations issued could carriers has declined substantially. pay the trip fee. are good for six days, are available p.m. Monday through Saturday. be substantial. During the first six months of Operators also have com- online. For details, go to www. CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 c November reopening for Opryland; restoration expensive NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Gay- forts,” said Kemp Gallineau, se- tion and rebuild cost for its proper- surance proceeds of $50 million of the flood, including all project lord Opryland Resort & Conven- nior vice president and chief sales ties in Nashville, by the record and a federal tax refund of approx- costs, offsetting items, and $20 mil- tion Center plans to reopen Nov. officer, at Gaylord Opryland. flooding to be between $215 mil- imately $30 million. lion in contingencies is approxi- 15, after spending tens of millions “We have manually inspected lion and $225 million. Also, since the hotel is located mately $169 million to $179 mil- on restoration. and tested every aspect of our me- The costs include approximate- in a federal disaster area, the com- lion. This excludes the cost of The giant hotel and meetings chanical, electrical, (information ly $165 million to $172 million for pany will be permitted to amend pre-flood planned enhancement complex has been closed since technology) and power-generating Gaylord Opryland, $16 million to its 2009 federal tax return and car- projects. early May when a series of storms systems.
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