And, because, chips fall as they may, I like to keep things real, I am going to throw out a point that may ruffle a few feathers here--

There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of "folk clubs" of one kind or another. Most don't pay licensing fees, and the ones asked try to avoid it, and regard it a a moral affront that they've been asked--

However, the bottom line is that Barry Finn, and Bruce Murdock, and dozens, if not hundreds of other of the folks who write the songs we sing and play in our folk clubs don't collect any money for the performance of their songs, because folk clubs don't and won't pay licensing fees.

This the way we generally look at this issue at Mudcat, but maybe we should start to re-think it.