New decision from the Phonographic Performance Company to charge more
for music played in nightclubs and the like.
It's been covered on a couple of sites over the last few days."It lifted rates for recordings played in nightclubs from seven cents
per person a night to $1.05 per person. The dance party rate rises from 20 cents to $3.07 per person."
Here is The Age link -> http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertain ... 19305.html
What impact will this have on our scene? Is it going to end up costing
promoters more? And later down the line the punters?
I've only ever helped put on parties a few times and these costs are
covered by the venue. It didn't seem to impact on venue hire as to the
number of patrons either...
Seems to me when you can BUY a tune on iTunes for $0.99 and they want
to charge $3.07 for each track for each punter that said punter should
receive a copy of each individual track apon exiting the venue to keep!
Thoughts?
