I'm with Ray de tone on this. I have just released my first album and wish every day I could make a living doing what I love but yet bars feel it's ok to generate a profit by playing music from artist that don't ever see any royalties. The blanket license does not only cover live band performances of cover songs but also house music basically enticing customers to go to their business by using music from other artist not just local bands. Being a songwriter and seeing the membership side of these industries and having my BA in Music Industry I know that they take care of the local songwriters every day they are trying to make it happen for the songwriter not for some huge artist that is singing their songs but the guy that doesn't make crap for his hard work because bar owners who think they are entitled to the songwriters music. I'm all for free music to the public in general but when someone decides to use it as a tool to generate profit whether it be Karaoke, Cover Songs, Bars playing music, Pandora making a profit from the commercials or coffee shops making a profit from the music they play after the bands are done and they need something to lighten the mood and keep the ambience alive so that customers want to stay and purchase more music, it all needs to be accounted for because it's not right to take from the little guys. Yeah call them racketeers call them extortionists they're still a non-profit organization and they're still going to fight and bat for the songwriters rights while all the bar/coffee shop owners, and radio stations fight to continue to use the artist music for free to fill their greedy bellies.
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