As far as the fees to the bars,they need to tell these associations to collect there fees from the bands. As a band they are playing the music that has copyrights, therefore they are responsible for the copyrights. The band is a private contractor that contracts their music with the club. If you are a DJ you have to prove you downloaded your music legally and payed a fee usually about 99 cents. When ASCAP or BMI asks about copyrights with my band I explain to them that we bought the sheet music for the songs and therefore had payed the copyright at that time. They leave us alone. It's a big shakedown and if you let them intimidate you they will. P.S. If it's too loud, your too old !!!!!!
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