Bob,

But the artist and venue DO immediately benefit from the performance financially. The venue makes money on beer sales and the artist gets paid for the gig and can also sell CD's. That's the beauty of how it works.. everyone makes money if the venue pays the performance royalty and books the artist. There's money all around. If no liscense is paid for, the artist and venue benefit and the songwriter gets zero. If the artist at least recorded the cover song, then they would have compensated for each mechanical copy of the CD at least, but we both know it's rare for an entire set list of covers to be included on an artist CD.

Brian

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