Thousands PER YEAR for 6 parties totaling roughly 300 songs at most performed at them? I suspect that includes retroactive payments.

And just because I am always completely objective, let me ask you this. What if all 300 of those songs were written by Notes Norton? Would you be complaining that you didn't get your royalties? And the next devil's advocate step in my reply that will sound more snarky than it is intended to. Other than the possibility that you may lose 2 gigs a year, why does this bother you? You aren't paying the thousands of dollars. A completely disinterested party reading this is likely going to think those 2 gigs are what matters to you more than any kind of "It's the principle" motivation.

From my perspective, if it was 300 Eddie Anthony songs played at those 6 parties I would go to the ends of the earth to get my royalties. And as stubborn as I am about things like this I would probably spend more to get the royalties than the total of the royalties. Then again, I once spent $750 to sue somebody when the judgement was $650, so yes, you could say I am a vindictive SOB.

It's the "thousands" that is throwing me. I can't imagine 300 plays costing thousands. Could you elaborate on how many of those thousands they are being charged? 2000? 3000? 10,000? Could some ASCAP member who has collected those royalties please elaborate?

Once they know the fee per song, I anticipate that they will build language into the contract where they specify the number of songs you play and adjust the fee accordingly so they don't pay that fee. You do.

Last edited by eddie1261; 11/06/18 05:54 PM.