Copyright issues to expand to discos, dance schools and others?

This currently happens in Japan, but who says it won't expand to other countries?

"After winning its long-playing battle over song royalties with karaoke houses, a music copyright watchdog is telling live jazz clubs, discos and dance schools that it's time to pay the piper."

The club has to pay royalties from 1997 onwards - since their opening. And since the tax collectors naturally don't know how many songs were played that might have infringed copyright, they just put up an average sum per month.

Good morning world. When will the music industry wake up to realise that they are living in a world that is different from their's yesterday?

(By Asia Business Consulting)