Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
Trending News
Radio Music in a Bar / Restaurant Whats the Law? They were told they had to pay to play?
What is the name of the organization that goes into bars and restaurants and tells them they can't play the radio?
2 Answers
- METROPOLIS1Lv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
The name of the organization is called ASCAP and BMI...........
And yes - If you are playing background music whether its just a radio or music from a CD you have to pay royalties.......
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Society_of_C... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_Music,_Inc. http://www.ascap.com/ http://www.bmi.com/ Source?.... Me - I owned a nightclub and had to pay these fee's.... Everyone I know in the bar / restaurant business has to pay these...... These guys are no joke.... They send a rep out - count how many speakers, jukeboxes and TV sets you have, figure in how many days a week / hours you are open and they set a fee schedule up...... - ?Lv 44 years ago
Hymns with a stable content. i'm long term in view that complete with the favored 3 sentence suggestive, so called, Christian songs. i admire those lyrics that exalt and raise up God`s call. MIMI