Music fee hike backfires
Found on Bendigo Advertiser on Thursday, 12 November 2009
Businesses have decided to turn off tunes licensed by the record companies and play the music of artists that are not signed to major labels.
The fee changes would have resulted in businesses such as the Bendigo Club, which staff said yesterday had a bistro capacity of about 50, paying $3075.80 instead of the usual $62.04.
As part of the new scheme, local musicians will be given the opportunity to sell their music in clubs, while money earned from the sale of background music CDs will be used to establish a fund for talented Australian musicians.
Sweet freedom of choice. If I don't like your product, I won't buy it. Simple as that. And the positive result is that newcomers will have a bigger audience now that the mainstream "music" has been thrown out. So, thanks PPCA.