Dream,

You've kind of addressed your own question. The venue IS using a LOT of music there and has to pay license fees. It's really simple and straight forward. And they are not some little coffee shop if they are selling full menu food and alchohol. Even in that case, their fee of 900 dollars a year is less than a glass of wine a day for unlimited music year round. Sounds like quite a GREAT deal to me. If the music they use doesn't result in an extra glass of wine a day in sales to cover the fee, then they need to play better music or hire better live entertainment. I bet when you perform, you result in FAR more sales than a single glass of wine right? Perhaps they should instead book you more often right? $2.46 a day is a small business fee. How many napkins do they use per day? What does it cost to clean the table cloths? Wash the dishes? How much in daily glass breakage? How much is the electricity? Why is it that everyone ELSE gets paid to provide ambience to the restaurant, but it's unfair for songwriters to get paid? You're on the losing side of this argument Dream. Both in concept and result.

Brian

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