I think that from 2014 I will no longer use SIAE for deposits; they have raised the annual fee from about 91 euros to 151, quite a blow, all without notifying members obviously, because no communication arrived at home except directly the invoice, and on the website I haven't (at least I haven't seen any communication regarding this) seen any press release specifying it.
Anyway, I received a response from the "corresponding" SIAE company in Spain: once cancelled from SIAE, you only pay 15 euros and that's it, there is no annual fee to pay, and the services seem more numerous to me as well.
"the elimination of the payment of copyright fees for non-profit associations that organize live musical performances"
Probably by the legislator, the fair tribute to the composer's work is seen as a burden...
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Oracolo wrote:
Perhaps from the legislator's perspective, a fair tribute to the composer's work is seen as a burden...
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More than anything, perhaps they want to encourage initiatives that are not astronomical in terms of spectator numbers; we are talking about an audience of at most 200 people.
I know this (also) seems absurd, but in general I don't know how economically healthy SIAE is... I don't know if this increase is needed to buffer some "problems" within the contingent... the bulk should come from royalties... well...
