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In reply to the discussion: Open mic nights at bar lead to lawsuit from BMI over music, ask for $121,000 [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)musicians is extreme.
Composers make money when records are sold and when their music is played in a large venue by professionals. They shouldn't scour the countryside looking to take a cut from the hours and hours of work that amateurs do to finally get a chance to play in a small club.
And then I think of music teachers. (I was one once.) Should a music teacher pay the composers of the music their students play at recitals and in school functions? Puuhleeze.
This is absurd. Music is to share.
A lot of composers of modern music are lucky to get someone to play their music at all. Much of it won't stand the test of time. It is trash. And that includes some of the most popular music.
I think that composers have more to gain from having their songs heard and interpreted than from squeezing amateurs for a share of what they earn for the bar that lets them play their music.
I have a feeling that the best composers are not even heard of today thanks to businesses and managers that pick and choose based on what will sell to teenagers and not based on much else.