drew Roberts wrote: > On Tuesday 01 June 2010 08:06:20 Dave Phillips wrote: >> It's also worth noting that in my home area (NW Ohio) the pay scale for >> club musicians hasn't changed significantly in more than thirty years. >> Most venues don't like paying out more than $300 to $350 for a 4-hour >> gig > > Perhaps if we get to the point where enough Free music exists for a band to be > able to play a gig in a club consisting of only Free music (and perhaps laws > will have to change too, I admit ignorance here) there will be more money > available to go to the band rather than to the collection societies? > > We shall see. > > all the best, > > drew Never thought about that actually. Over here in the Netherlands that is still impossible because every venue has to pay a fixed amount to the collection society (Buma). So until then I still have to send in setlists and hope that I get anything back of our old songs that I registred with the collecting society. All our new material is CC, I don't want to be bound to the collecting society anymore. Best, Jeremy _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
