Doug,

That you need to take up with the US Government who backs up the blanket license by law. You see, songwriters have NO CHOICE to but allow ANYONE to perform their songs ANYWHERE. In exchange for that priveledge, venues have to pay licensing fees if they have live music. No one forces them to do it.

As for your suggestion that they have to prove that licensed music was used, in court they DO have to. And the PRO's have never once lost a case in court and aren't likely to start losing any time soon.

And what nightclub are you running that only makes 20 cents on a glass of wine? Seriously.. how could they stay in business if they were that stupid? The rule of thumb is that any bottle of wine is sold for double or more automatically and the cost of a glass of wine is more expensive than buying a whole bottle. If you know venues who don't mark up their wine even 10% then you need to give them a crash course in common sense and business 101.

Brian

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