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Originally Posted by cybmole
oh - you mean that trade where you perform other folks creations for money, but pay no royalties to whoever wrote the tune  |
Nice one! But, no. The venues pay for a PRS licence, and get forms to fill in detailling what's been played, from which allocation of royalties are calculated. Not a perfect system, but royalties DO get paid. Though you get a much better deal when YOU write the songs, produce the show and sell the tickets.
Mostly, though, I'm just a gun for hire. Rather like making eBooks. Let the publisher/promoter/producer/employer take care of all that. I play what I'm given to play, get a cheque at the end of the job.
So you'll have to take better aim if you want to shoot me down :-)