Not just that, but if you are a mechanic and have the radio on in your shop (even if the customers don’t hear it) you have to pay.
And they have shaken down bars for televisions too, there may be a Burger King commercial with a Motown song or something. Again, no accountability of what MAY have played so none of the collected money actually goes to the artist. It is a shakedown racket.
What if we change the words and make it a parody?
That is okay as I understand it
Not quite as good as Carbon Credits but still a nice little income generator.
Idiots in Congress perpetuate this robbery. I think this was adjudicated at the Supreme Court because if Congress had the power to extend the copyright into perpetuity it would be a violation of the Constitution which clearly says copyright and pattens would be for a limited times. Court punted.