As someone working for a small business all I can say is...yes this is likely. Especially in this current atmosphere. Not a day goes by that some music company isn't calling us wanting to force us to get a license for music we never play. We have to play derivative songs, songs that are in the public domain, or else we face a lawsuit. These people are sharks. I'm so sick of companies wanting to control copyright so fiercely they overlook the fact that yeah we own the songs that we bought and we should be able to play them for a lot of people without having six different companies phone us about it all the time. We're so scared of them now we won't even have live music concerts encase the artists are affliated with some music company. We should be able to tell other people the lyrics to the songs we love without having to pay. Next thing...we won't be able to sing songs to our children without getting permission. This is just sickening.
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