Post #326993 by Tiki Bill on Tue, Aug 21, 2007 7:41 AM

Juke boxes are exempt because you put your dollar in to hear some music, the owner of the jukebox then pays a percentage of the take to ASCAP or BMI. That leaves the club out of it. You could use an I pod, but you would have to rig a bill acceptor to it. My good friend Rob Parissi (who wrote "Play That Funky Music White Boy") even gets paid for ringtones of that song by the cell companys. As I make my living writing and licenseing music, I can understand the arguement on both sides. While I do want to be paid for the use of my music, there is a point where you can be too anal about it. It's not so much the artist's fault, it's the publishers and owners of old music catalogs they bought when the songs were about to go public domain (i.e. Michael Jackson and the Beatles). I expect to be paid for use of my music on a TV show or the like, but I wouldn't freak out if a bar was playing my CD. That's just nitpicky. Now, if they were using my music as part of the floor show folks paid to see, then pay up mofo! :)

Tiki Bill.

[ Edited by: Tiki Bill 2007-08-21 07:44 ]