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ckysar · 09-11-2009, 03:10 PM

I realized that BMI actually stood for 'Black Mail Incorporated' after a series of very threatening phone calls and fedex packages.
I have a couple of points to add.
First even though most of the live music we played was original they wanted to charge me seven thousand (I sell natural burgers and beer and wine in a small restaurant) This made music un affordable. I was paying local artist plus feeding this was a good thing for them and for my customers (a bit of a money looser for me even before fees).
When talking to this scum I asked what are these fees for, "Oh they go to the artist that wrote the music'
I then asked 'in all our conversations you never asked for a play list how are you going to distribute my fees to those artist?, reply "we will use air play to determine disrtibution' WHAT A CROCK
I asked some of the artist that played for me about these thieves and two artist gave me almost the same comment, every year they are sent a letter stating "CONGRATULATIONS, we collected x for you last year, we will apply this to your dues and this will leave you with a balance due to us of X"

Final note HERE IS THE LOOP HOLE
If you sell the music on cd you can call the playing a 'demo' like record stores do , so you can avoid these charges ( but please check with your legal adviser).

09-11-2009, 03:10 PM	#6 (permalink)
ckysar Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 1 User Status: Offline	I realized that BMI actually stood for 'Black Mail Incorporated' after a series of very threatening phone calls and fedex packages. I have a couple of points to add. First even though most of the live music we played was original they wanted to charge me seven thousand (I sell natural burgers and beer and wine in a small restaurant) This made music un affordable. I was paying local artist plus feeding this was a good thing for them and for my customers (a bit of a money looser for me even before fees). When talking to this scum I asked what are these fees for, "Oh they go to the artist that wrote the music' I then asked 'in all our conversations you never asked for a play list how are you going to distribute my fees to those artist?, reply "we will use air play to determine disrtibution' WHAT A CROCK I asked some of the artist that played for me about these thieves and two artist gave me almost the same comment, every year they are sent a letter stating "CONGRATULATIONS, we collected x for you last year, we will apply this to your dues and this will leave you with a balance due to us of X" Final note HERE IS THE LOOP HOLE If you sell the music on cd you can call the playing a 'demo' like record stores do , so you can avoid these charges ( but please check with your legal adviser).