Comment Re:ACTRA/SOCAN (Score 1) 318
Maybe it is elitism, where the guys already on top somehow have more rights. Because welfare would again be that the little people get something because they have not enough (though I do not know if Celine Dione is on top of anything).
And It sucks you have to pay that much for renting a space even if you do not make music. Here in Germany, you pay for playing music in a business: if you own a little shop that is open 5 hours a day 5 days a week and plays some soft music for the clients you pay as much as a club playing loud dance music 24 hours a day. Luckily it is not that much.