Re: Music lic fees for stores

[Jibguy@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/30/98 7:18:31 AM EST, bostonradio@yahoo.com writes:
<< BMI and ACAP
 have 75,000 members each. The average licensing fee paid by a business
 owner to ASCAP is $1.50/day; to BMI is $1.00. (I am sure your local
 barber shop or hair salon had this cost buried somewhere in the price
 of your haircust :)
  >>

Small places like barber shops, small restaurants, if using just a plain
2-speaker home-style radio is exempted under  "Home-style exclusion".
HOWEVER, the gangsters try to sign em up anyway, hoping that the business
owner doesn't know how to say those 3 words.  When they do, the gangster backs
off.
- -----jibguy

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