Frank12 posted this on FB:
This is being delivered to all RNC businesses around the island. Starting next month, every business that plays music and has an RNC number, will get a notice where they have to pay $2000 pesos a month (around US $40). This is sort of like what North American restaurants & bars have pay to ASCAP and BMI for the right to play Copyrighted music inside a business. They have started delivering these notices to all RNC businesses here on the island.
Let's do the math...the guy delivering the notices said that around 40 to 50 businesses just in Cabarete were receiving the notices--including the gas station! In Santiago, he said it was several hundred businesses. In Santo Domingo, it would be several thousand businesses. Around the entire island, how many businesses have an RNC number and play music? They could be soon collecting several hundred thousand dollars a month around the entire island.
This is being delivered to all RNC businesses around the island. Starting next month, every business that plays music and has an RNC number, will get a notice where they have to pay $2000 pesos a month (around US $40). This is sort of like what North American restaurants & bars have pay to ASCAP and BMI for the right to play Copyrighted music inside a business. They have started delivering these notices to all RNC businesses here on the island.
Let's do the math...the guy delivering the notices said that around 40 to 50 businesses just in Cabarete were receiving the notices--including the gas station! In Santiago, he said it was several hundred businesses. In Santo Domingo, it would be several thousand businesses. Around the entire island, how many businesses have an RNC number and play music? They could be soon collecting several hundred thousand dollars a month around the entire island.