"People who feel there should be no licences involved in folk music might like to consider what would happen if we scrapped the TV licence, for example. There'd be no BBC and commercial interests would be even more in control."

In Australia the 'license fee' was scrapped MANY decades ago - and Govt money still flows to the ABC (Radio & TV & Radio Australia - the overseas service) and SBS Radio & TV... The ABC costs each taxpayer 8 cents a day, they keep telling us... :-)