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Originally Posted by RandyMcCharles
In Canada you don't get a KJ license, you get a business licence. A KJ cannot work in a venue without a business license, though venues 'can' hire under the table at the risk of losing their own business license. Mostly this is to ensure that income tax is paid.
In order to get a business license to be a KJ you have to describe your business, which description includes playing properly licensed music. The Canadian gvt is very paranoid about licensed music. I don't know about the US, but in Canada when you buy a blank CD you pay a music tax because the gvt assumes you will copy music to it and then also assumes that you got the music without paying royalties. It doesn't matter if you are using the CDs for photos from your camera or are making legal copies of music you paid for. They assume the worst and everyone pays. Some of that money even gets distributed to musicians. Anyway, I am not a professional Kj, but I spoke to one about her business license and she told me that she must undergo a voluntary audit once or twice a year. She pays a registered auditor to inspect her hard drive and her CGS collection and receipts and writes a letter stating that all is in good order. Without this letter, she cannot renew her business license, and without a business license, venues will not hire her.
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i had a business llicense at one time, (LLC )even though it's just a hobby for me, but anyway i let it run out since i don't do karaoke shows anymore, just a private gigs here and there( djing 90% of my dj tunes are bought from itunes, some are from own collections ), not even enough to claim as an income ,i used to claimed it , but i still end up paying the IRS. it's the same here in the US, when you buy blank media,( or anything else for that matter ) we just call it sales tax, as long as you pay your taxes, i don't think the gov't cares what you do with it..if it's a voluntary auditing and pay a registered auditor to audit your hhd, it's still a gray line there, she could still copy the non legal songs on another drive and removed it from her show hhd, and present it to the auditor , the auditor doesn't know what she has on it or how many song she's got , so does venue owners, i don't think the owner will go thru her hhd and will asked her to show the original / # of songs she has...