[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Wouldn't the ASCAP and BMI fees cover canned house music also? I don't know of any food/beverage establishment that doesn't have some form of music incorporated in their environment.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Venues with jukeboxes etc... used to have to pay those fees to ASCAP/BMI.. now, I think they go through the JLO to do that... its been a while, but there used to be two fees period - one to ASCAP, and one to BMI, and they were not all all too expensive for even the smallest bar to pay - it's just another cost of doing business, really - and as I stated in an earlier post, live entertainment was rarely a losing proposition for a bar - unless the bar was already having financial trouble to begin with...