Canadian Copyright Board To Charge For Music At Weddings, Parades

silentbrad writes "The CBC reports, 'Money can't buy love — but if you want some great tunes playing at your wedding, it's going to cost you. The Copyright Board of Canada has certified new tariffs that apply to recorded music used at live events including conventions, karaoke bars, ice shows, fairs and, yes, weddings. The fees will be collected by a not-for-profit called Re:Sound. While the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (otherwise known as SOCAN) already collects money from many of these events for the songwriters, Re:Sound will represent the record labels and performers who contributed to the music. .. For weddings, receptions, conventions, assemblies and fashion shows, the fee is $9.25 per day if fewer than 100 people are present and goes up to $39.33 for crowds of more than 500 people. If there's dancing, the fees double. Karaoke bars will pay between $86.06 and $124 annually depending on how many days per week they permit the amateur crooning. And parades, meanwhile, will be charged $4.39 for each float with recorded music participating in the parade, subject to a minimum fee of $32.55 per day.'"

Re:When you can't innovate

[Anonymous Coward]

Watch out, soon we will have to pay to voice our protests against it.

That's way too low...

[bugs2squash]

let's say there are 1000 guests and 50 songs are played. This clearly means that 50,000 record labels will never be able to make money again. The fees should be at least 47 trillion loonies per event.

Re:Dancing?

[BronsCon]

dancing is forbidden

Looks like ATHF [youtube.com] saw this coming?

Re:"If there's dancing, the fees double."

[Anonymous Coward]

I think if they start sneaking up to weddings it is a good reason to bring back shotgun weddings.

Downfall

[ThatsNotPudding]

Watch out, soon we will have to pay to voice our protests against it.

Reminds me of the Downfall parody about Disney and Steamboat Willy Forever. One woman starts crying and the other one says to her: 'Don't cry; they own the rights to that emotion.'

Re:When you can't innovate

[Joce640k]

"You, over there! Stop bobbing your head in time to the music, we haven't paid for head bobbing!"

They forgot to mention campfire songs!

[kawabago]

Campfire songs are probably one of the biggest threats to the music industry today! Every weekend in summer there are thousands upon thousands of illegally sung songs, it's absolutely criminal! Once we stop that we'll have to work on the next big threat, humming. People have been humming tunes to themselves for generations and not a single cent has been paid to the writers for these illegal performances. It is criminal and must be stopped! Soon the technology will be available to read what people are thinking, and finally the music industry can put a stop to people remembering a tune. Remembering a tune you have heard is actually an illegal copy and people should rightly be imprisoned for illegally remembering music!

Re:When you can't innovate

[HornWumpus]

When the Baptist start to complain.

Re:When you can't innovate

[mcgrew]

You remind me of an old joke.

Q: Why won't Baptists have sex standing up?

A: They're afraid someone will see them and think they're dancing!