What if. What if.
Gee Greg.
What if musicians performing live simply didn't perform any material without accepting the fact they duty bound to make it possible for pro bodies to impliment the pay the writer their dues plan which is in place?
What if they submit them regardless of if they know the venue is doing it right or not?
All the what ifs you mention would no doubt be taken into consideration by the courts if it got that far I am sure, and a decision would be made.
W ouldn't that make then problem simply go away?
Maybe it is the fact there are so many performers out there who do it as a sideline, not including it in their income returns etc that keeps it florishing.
The pros are not corporate bodies. They are bodies set up to hopfully getting people's dues to them in a more collective and plausable way no matter what affilliatiojns the writer has.
The ground work for them was done in France around 1850 and yet their worse enemy still may well be some of their own members.
Graham


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