Disclaimer: The band pays ASCAP fees and there is never any copyright infringement intended.

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He is a drummer, a composer, and a 2008 recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award.

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The serpentine "Flipside" earned Shaw his second ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award.

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In 2002, he was named ASCAP's songwriter of the year, and a few years after he earned two Grammy nominations for album and song of the year.

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In fact, ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, just announced the most performed holiday songs of the past five years and "Auld Lang Syne" didn't make the list by a long shot.

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My guess is the various owners of the intellectual property leaking onto the Internet will admit defeat and form an uber-licensing agency, like ASCAP, that will collect a monthly fee in exchange for nearly universal access to music, movies and other forms of entertainment.

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