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Title: Australia's PPCA's (no relation) greed - Music fees have gyms jumping
Post by: trailblazer11 on December 21, 2010, 09:42:22 PM
http://www.dailymercury.com.au/story/2010/12/16/music-fees-have-gyms-jumping/

A bid by a leading industry recording group to increase the fees gyms pay for music by more than 1500 per cent will severely damage the fitness industry, says Mackay's City Fitness Health Club owner Steve Eden.
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City Fitness Health Club currently has about 25 group fitness classes per week and Eden estimates the increases could cost his business nearly $20,000.


Title: Re: Australia's PPCA's (no relation) greed - Music fees have gyms jumping
Post by: Mikkel Paulson on December 21, 2010, 10:10:09 PM
Are they hurting for money? No they are not. There's no justification for adding or significantly increasing royalties…


Title: Re: Australia's PPCA's (no relation) greed - Music fees have gyms jumping
Post by: Concerned Citizen on December 23, 2010, 12:46:14 PM
1500% increase? $20,000 a year...

If I was that guy I'd tell them to goto hell and get some live entertainment in the form of a band or something to play stuff instead.


Title: Re: Australia's PPCA's (no relation) greed - Music fees have gyms jumping
Post by: Jay Frank on December 27, 2010, 11:42:15 PM
Comparable to the cost of a UFC fight for a large commercial bar.


Title: Re: Australia's PPCA's (no relation) greed - Music fees have gyms jumping
Post by: Sean Hunt on December 28, 2010, 03:45:03 PM
Sounds like something AC might try to pull...

oh wait.