“Technically, anyone performing music publicly anywhere has to pay: * If you are in a marching band playing in a parade and the song you are playing is an ASCAP or BMI song, the band or the parade organizers have to pay. * If you are an aerobics instructor using music in a class, you have to pay. * If you are a street musician, you have to pay. If you do not pay and you get caught, you can be sued. Beware, the fines are pretty steep — sometimes thousands of dollars.”
I’m reading about “How Music Licensing Works” and it’s making me a little crazy. It just seems over-thought. Convoluted even. It’s all reads like a college essay that someone’s been over-thinking for the last 50 years.
