PD,

But that's a different issue and argument.

1. There SHOULD be a blanket license fee.

2. There SHOULD be a fair and accurate system to distribute those fees.

Two separate issues. Because one is flawed, it doesn't mean the other should be excluded. Both need work.. but it's not the concern of the venues where the money goes because what they are paying for is the RIGHT to have ANY music performed in their venue. They aren't making direct payments to artists. That's the job of the PRO's. And writers (for better or worse)have assigned the right to collect that fee to their particular PRO. The second issue is between the writers and those they have put in charge of collecting their fees for. If they have problems, they need to either A: force change/improvement or B: assign their rights to a different PRO going forward.

It seems some venues (and even artists) are making the same lame argument that file theft people make about illegally downloading songs. "Since the labels screw the artists, we're not going to pay the labels (and thus the same artists) either." It's BS for illegal file sharers and it's BS for venues.

Brian

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