I want to emphasize again:

I think that there should be 1 single mandated performance license, perhaps set by a regulatory commission. This fee should be very standard and equally enforced with clear cut rules of who has to pay it, and how the fee is determined.

Once the money is collected, the PRO's and other interests (such as artists not affiliated with the PRO's but who have filed for legal standing to get their portion of that pool of money) should then have to demonstrate what their fair share of that money is.

THAT would be a fair system, and would remove the perception that thugs and criminals are collecting from the PRO's and thugs and criminals are refusing to pay their bill. (I.e. it removes the histrionics from both sides).

Brian

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