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I completely agree with you Rick.
When Jean and I had our Guest House, they phoned up one day and said we have to pay them, so I asked why, I don't have a radio or TV in the breakfast room, but they then asked if we had alarm-clock radios and/or TV's in the bedrooms which I replied yes to both.
Ah, he said, you'll have to pay for the radio as it may play music.
The whole point of this PRS is public entertainment, but my guest rooms were not open to the public (nor was the breakfast room come to think of it, as people only had breakfast if they had paid for their private bedroom), they were private, people paid to use them; for the period they stayed with us, that room was theirs and theirs alone.
You can imagine I was getting very angry at this point (without swearing I hasten to add) and told him there was no way I would be paying them any money, where ever the music was played was a private area - not for the general public.
They never came back to me and I emailed all the members of the Dover Guest House Association - who still advertise on here, advising them not to pay either and use the same arguments.
On the other side, about assisting musicians, I also agree with Rick, it is, in the majority of cases, counter-productive.
It doesn't really help any one, only those employed by the company - as Rick says, it's a con.
Roger