copyright laws

[Sroundtable@xxxxxxx]

> Private parties don't pay, but facilities that offer music have to pay a 
> periodic fee, don't they?  Not to the individual artists, but to the 
> organizations that represent artists "interests" and which distribute the 
> collected money as royalies.
> The Who had to pay to play their own songs on the 2000 tour, and apparently 
> Pete didn't get back what he paid in.  He made some 
> comments on his website 
> about it.
> 
> 
> keets

Keets:

Pete may have been referring to British copyright law.  I know that, for example, coverbands don't have to pay royalties to all the bands they cover.  After all, the band is not actually copying the music, but playing it their own way live.  This is probably why that moron Vanilla Ice didn't have to pay Queen or David Bowie (can't remember who wrote the song) for Ice, Ice Baby.  I am not aware of bars, for example, having to pay royalties for the music the DJ plays.  Does a club with a jukebox have to pay the same?  It's the same thing.  In any event, the Bush gala was a "private" party, not a business playing music.

Mc