Bob toward your question.
No you don't have to do a play list of your all originals if you do a "sing only me" night.
They are your songs. Your pro only metres out the dues for the songs you choose to submit on a play list.
It does mean you won't get a cheque for the playing of them frpm your pro, but that is your choise.
Not so with any covers you do and don't submit on a play list.
That means you have made the decision the writer is not going to have anyn say in weather they get paid their dues for you earning a buck by singing their songs.
I find it very hard to believe any live play royalties are metred out on a sytem that is figured by air play of records.
That goes against the entire purpose of a writre's pro.
To make it possible for ANY writer who registers their work to gain fair compensation for others using that work in a commercial venture, as in live play, radio, whatever.
How much airplay, if any at all, does not come itto the figuring with APRA I know because I read it in the rules.
And the fact that there is a little old lady in OHIO who is a full PRO member because I sang one of our collabs in the hole in the wall down here in Esperance suggests it is not the case up there either.
Hope that answers your question Bob.
Now back to read the funnies.
Graham



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