Brian...

thank you for clarifying...

Yesw...I do see what you are saying...

Now...

My song "A Woman Like Me" has been in Nan Masons act for 10 years.
It is published thru Jack Kramer Music, a BMI publishing company.
Nan probably does 100 dates a year...she is a cabaret singer and works all over the country.
I'm sure she has worked many places licensed by BMI.
How come I've never gotten any $
The fact is, that I would find it immoral and wrong to receive any money for the public performance of my song, but nevertheless, the system you encourage is in place and has been in place for as long as I've been in the business.
Can I see a show of hands from any of the writers in here who, like me, have PRO affiliations, who have received any $ for the public performances of their songs.

I repeat what I've said...
We should be happy that an artist chooses to do our song.
We should not expect to be paid for that performance.

Period !

If we want to be paid we should go out and perform !

Period !

If the artist records our song...THAT"S when we get paid !

Period !

If the artist performs our song somewhere and people go out and buy OUR Cd, cos" that song is on it, then we, morally should be paying the artist !

Period !

At a time when live venues are closing or eliminating live music policies, we should not be promoting more fees to raise thei overhead.
That is ridiculous...
We should be making it as cheap and easy as possible to get artists in there performing our songs !

Period !

You're headed toweards a time when joints will just pipe in music, maybe from satellite radio stations and say to Hell with live music, it's too much bother !

You greedy songwriter types will have won !

Congratulations !

And my guess is that ASCAP and BMI still will not have sent people like me any money as our songs get played.

Brian..you are championing a system that has proved itself unworkable.

Whose side are you on ?

Bob Young