Re: Music lic fees for stores

[Mark Shneyder <bostonradio@yahoo.com>]

Under the old law :
Any business under 2,000 feet was exempt.

Under the new law : the exemption limit is raised to 3,750 sq. feet.

What you consider 'small' often qualified
as non-exempt under the old law.

- -Mark

- ---Jibguy@aol.com wrote:
>
> 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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