Now hear this, and before I address your comments Marty.
I just got off the phone to the APRA lady and in that conversation I found out, that while it is mandatory all venues having entertainment must be liceienced to do so, there is no stipulation with any legal standing artists submit a playlist of material used.
It is a case of "do the right thing if you think it's the right thing.
So. Our laws and conditions are really no bettre than yours appear to be.
It is a case of get the bucks in and do nothing real about sending them out to where they belong.
Cover bands as a rule do not submit lists, and quite often it appears songwriters who are lucky not to be born lazy and perform seemingly going by the article in the last APRA newsletter pad their playlists with their own material , probably at the expense of the writer who wrote the covers that got the crowd there anyway.
That said. I must say it took a long time for that factor to be squeezed out of my pro.
The workings are all there, they just got no way of making anybody bar the venues form abiding by them.
Forget about the do the right thing stuff and all that. We are not all in this together when it comes to writers and artists
That said and back to you Marty.
I don't see the point in not making information or thoughts available just because some don't read subject enough to understand the situation.
The ones who want to will read it again until they do understand, or ask.
The ones who don't want to understand, I really don't care if they are confused or not.
I ran out of pity for ignorance a long time ago.
And that said. Given today's sad revelation, I don't know I have a lot left to say on the matter anyhow.
Not that that will stop me mind you.
As long as I believe there is a better mousetrap, I will keep working on the idea.
Graham

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