In a message to Al Thompson  Jeff Edmonson wrote:
JE>  I -really- think, however, that the best way those two Music corps
JE>  get away with it, is to just have the business owners pay a one-time
JE>  initiation fee, then a yearly feed to cover all bases.
That would certainly be the EASIEST, but it still doesn't solve the problem 
of who should RECEIVE the royalties which BMI/ASCAP gets.  It can't 
reasonably just divide the royalties to every existing copyright holder.
It would be simple to figure out where the royalties should go if the bar 
only had a house band which played James Brown songs, but that is not the 
norm.
I don't know the answer.  Anyone here live in NY and can call BMI to ask?  
 
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