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Title: Colorado Bar vs BMI Post by: TulsaMoon on April 20, 2014, 09:19:46 am Now before you go bashing, read the article and keep in mind, this is my little sister that owns the bar. This was a lesson learned and her goal was to inform others in all businesses not to make the same mistake.
http://gazette.com/article/1518541 Title: Re: Colorado Bar vs BMI Post by: patric on April 20, 2014, 12:56:20 pm Now before you go bashing, read the article and keep in mind, this is my little sister that owns the bar. This was a lesson learned and her goal was to inform others in all businesses not to make the same mistake. http://gazette.com/article/1518541 She's not the one shaking down a small business for 32 grand, and while artists should be compensated, I see most of those collections going to "administrative fees" and salaries. Title: Re: Colorado Bar vs BMI Post by: dbacksfan 2.0 on April 20, 2014, 01:33:51 pm Just a little fun with numbers, say those three groups license 200 bars per state per year at $4500.00 each, that comes out to approximately $15 million in fees per group per year. I know that a portion of those fees goes to pay royalties, just curious as to how much is royalties and how much for salaries.
Title: Re: Colorado Bar vs BMI Post by: TulsaMoon on April 20, 2014, 03:54:09 pm She's not the one shaking down a small business for 32 grand, and while artists should be compensated, I see most of those collections going to "administrative fees" and salaries. Correct, she is not. In fact a little more info. As the story states the service men requested and performed songs, the investigator for BMI requested and performed the others. Was a true setup all the way, and her attorney in Denver dropped that ball. But as I said this was a story she wanted out as a warning to businesses, not a poor, poor me story. Title: Re: Colorado Bar vs BMI Post by: Conan71 on April 21, 2014, 07:47:44 am Unreal how $1200 turned into $32K. That’s worse than getting OTC’d!
Best wishes to her and her business, TM. |