Music Industry vs. Dentists

Dental Spas usually have soothing music as a background while they’re doing their job on your teeth. However, there’s a group out there who would like the dentists to pay for those music everytime you hear them. 

The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), a group that collects royalties for musicians, locked on dental offices. They’re asking these establishments to cough up a yearly fee of a $100 if they use copyrighted music to entertain patients. 

Naturally, the dentists feel that the SOCAN is just getting way too greedy: 

“I just feel it’s a money grab,” said Vancouver dentist Kerstin Conn, who recently received a letter from SOCAN at her office. “We paid for our CD and we’re using it to listen to, and half the time my patients … don’t even hear the music.”

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