I agree with quite a lot of Jim Carrolls comments, Ithink there is room for improvement with the way IMRO GO ABOUT COLLECTING ROYALTIES AND DISTRIBUTING THEM,
I do not think it is fair to call them parasites, they are there to protect the creativity of song writers, that is in my opinion a good thing, much as unions are there to protect the rights and working conditions of ordinary people, sometimes union leaders make mistakes, sometimes they are reporting back to mi5 on union meetings,[joe gormley ray buckton]sometimes they strike mistakenly, but that does not mean that they should be got rid of.
jim calls them parsites but does not suggest any alternative,apart from the ridculous suggestion of shipping off profesional folk perfomers my own opinion is that folk clubs should be exempt from paying out live performance if the attence is less than 100 people, and should be exempt on singers night where evrybody is amateur in the financial sense of the word, likewise non guest singers clubs and irish trad tune sessions.