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Article: Hotels, record companies reach deal on royalties
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- Jerusalem Post
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- February 2, 2003
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Headline: Hotels, record companies reach deal on royalties
Byline: Haim Shapiro
Edition; Daily
Section: Arts
Page: 05
Sunday, February 2, 2003 -- In theory it is only right that hotels
pay record companies for the use of recordings the hotels play for
their guests, but in a period when the hotels have experienced the
worst year ever they are hardly in a position to pay out large sums.
As a solution to this problem, the Hotel Association and the Israel
Record Federation of Record Companies recently signed an agreement
according to which the hotels will pay the record companies, but the
payments will vary according to the occupancy of the hotel.
According to Hotel ...