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as to the cost associated with a small venue, it's absurd to think that the PROs are in the business of harassing small businesses to get them to stop using music. To the contrary, the PROs and the artists they represent WANT the venues to use the music, because that's how the PROs and the artists get paid. They don't set fees that are ridiculous or that are going to discourage licensees from signing up.


My county of 10,000 people in one town of 2000 people had 9 venues with live music in 1937, last year the last one closed.

Show me a single place with more venues with live music today than 50 yrs ago that has the same population or even close to the same population.