Well people, incase you though the RIAA/whatever it is called in the states are greedy. We may soon have to flip the bill for background music, the type you hear in an store, or when yah go to an dentist visit or any place else that uses the radio, or their own selection of music CD's. Thanks in part to SOCAN(Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada). Which has been a 30 year campain to get users of copywrited matier to pay fo licensing fees required by the Copyright Board of Canada.

I lost intrest in the article after I got to that point, do to the fact this chick(best friends little sister mwhaha) I was having cofee with yesturday had a nice bouncy rack
IT was printed in the Calgary Herold <a href='http://www.canada.com/calgary/calgaryherald/' target='_blank'>http://www.canada.com/calgary/calgaryherald/</a> the headline in my paper thatt borrowed the artilce was
Royalties Sought for Background Music.

That's BS. Are you telling me I now have to buy a CD and then in order to listen to it I have to pay royalties.

This has been around for years.. *Gos into Expert Mode*

In the UK we have a system Called PRS that pays royalties to Artists.

This includes Television - Radio Stations - and Stores that use Music for the Public.

Stores can work around it if they have a small Cd Player sitting out the back because then they can say it is for staff use.. But if they play it over speakers in the Public section then they have to pay royalties for the privilege

Basically the cost of royalties for stores will be low.

They can get a PRS License for music for about £100 per year.
Radio and Television don't get such an easy ride..

The more the listeners the more they have too pay.

For Citybeat for example. Per play of a song we have to pay £1 royalties to an artist. 13 songs an hour works out at £13 an hour £312 a day and £113,880 a year. thats for a station with 1million listeners - £1 per million per CD

so radio stations have different fees which are decided after PRS do a study of your stations audience and reach in different sectors like ABC1 DEF2 ETC the social classes. the higher the social class you reach will also affect your outpayment..

Stores have too pay a set fee of £100 per store per year so they get an easy ride pretty much.

There we go.

Theres my Tutorial on how artists get there dues.

Andy

<!--QuoteBegin-Tha Masster+Sep 26 2003, 04:29 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Tha Masster @ Sep 26 2003, 04:29 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> That's BS. Are you telling me I now have to buy a CD and then in order to listen to it I have to pay royalties. [/quote]
No the store has too pay the royalties - if you pay for the CD and use it for personal use you don't need to pay royalties.

The store may have to pay, but in the end we'll probably get stuck with it in the bill some how as an extra tax. Remember that one day, if you buy that nice new shirt you been looking at and notice it 3 cents over or something.