The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #104674   Message #2146326
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
11-Sep-07 - 09:01 AM
Thread Name: Paying to have open mike session
Subject: RE: Paying to have open mike session
The PRS collects fees from venues where live music is performed. These represent Performing Rights and the monies are redistributed to the owners of these rights, i.e. the composers and arrangers of the music performed.

You have beer delivered to your pub, do you not, for which the brewery subsequently invoices you and thus pays the people who worked to produce it.

Are you saying the songwriters should work for nothing?