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The cover song - bar license fee , is a fair requirement.
People go to a bar that has a band to be entertained. The band may have a name as a "covers band" playing songs written by all one artist. The bar and in turn the band are making money from anothers intellectual property. It's only fair a percentage goes back to the owner of those songs.
Especially when you have the phenomena of the Aussie band "Cold Chisel" that broke up years ago. I recall more than once, a covers band playing all their songs was selling out night after night, while down the road, the writer/guitarist of much of that music was performing to empty bars.
Under the APRA system, he was still being paid a little for the bands use of his material.
However, does it compensate for the fact that without the covers band playing, he may have had a bigger crowd?
People are wierd. That was a very bizzare series of events. A prime example of zero respect for the artist and creator of the work loved.
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