ST Thursday 12Jan2006. Home7.
Bloggers and personal website owners may soon be pressed to license the background music that they have on their online journals or websites.
For websites where the song cannot be dwnloaded, owners have to pay $1000 a yr for playing 10 songs or fewer. $5000 for playing 11 to 49songs. $10000 for over 50 songs.
'This is a competitive rate' said Mr Tan of COMPASS.
While it has not yet sued any1, COMPASS will start 'massive educational efforts' soon.

And yes, its $$$ again. Now I know that $5000 for playing 10 songs online is really a 'competitive' rate.
What sort of competition? What makes 10 songs for $5000 so competitive.
Why can't COMPASS view this as 'promoting' one's album?
I shall zip up my mouth now. If not I maybe the one getting into trouble instead. Singapore dun practice free speech.

Haha, surprisingly, I found this article ( Singapore not an open society, argues George Soros ) on the same page as the article above.