It is not the composer's rights we take issue with, it is the organisation's targets (small struggling education establishments) and tactics (which has been described as thuggish).

Do you think it is fair that small schools are priced out of being able to use popular music or new arrangements of classical music in their orchestra, marching band, and choir repertoire? Sad, because it is the popular music which attracts students to the curriculum, where they learn other music which is in public domain.

This practice is going to return us to the days where culture is only for those who afford it.

There has to be a fairer way of collecting and disseminating those fees.

Sorryy, my back gets up whenever there is a mention of Paul McCartney because I know what his performance contract is like and is likely to be same for other big names.

No members of trade unions permitted to work his gigs. Why? It turns my stomach.