Are night clubs required to pay royalties for playing copyrighted music? If so, when and how is it monitored?
Night clubs and any other venue where music is performed in public are required to pay public performing rights royalties. This is monitored by SOCAN, Canada’s only performing right society. Night clubs are licensed under a blanket license and pay a yearly fee to SOCAN. In addition, in other venues such as concert venues and other places where music is performed in public, (for example, in air planes or football stadiums), SOCAN has jurisdiction and license such venues for performances of music in public.
