Do you play music? Fitness professionals unite!
Posted by Nikki Layton on Fri, Apr 17, 2009
Almost all trainers, boot camp operators, Pilates and even yoga instructors use music to help motivate their clients. If you own a facility then the chances are you have music running all the time, am I right? Anyone with a fitness business uses music at 1 point or another.
Well what would you say if I told you that you would have to pay 5% of your GROSS revenue and $3/class. For some you would say go to h*** that is my profit margin. Well currently Australia and Canada are fighting against the music industry proposed tariff. If passed this would potentially cripple fitness businesses with taxes, tariffs and surcharges.
Now perhaps you are thinking well we are in the US so what does it matter? It matters a lot, once they have set precedence in 1 country they will use that to convince the powers that be to enforce rulings in other countries.
Join operation M.U.S.I.C, members unite to stop increasing copyright charges, by getting involved with the organizing bodies in your country that are working together to keep this tariff from moving forward:
All of these bodies are working together to try and keep this from being implemented. At the IHRSA trade show last month there was a reception where Fitness Industry Canada (FIC) received a huge response to this issue and pledges of support from various bodies. check out the article in FitNet to learn more about what happened at IHRSA.
Please spread the word, get involved, post it on your blog, tweet it, FaceBook it do what ever you can to help raise awareness on this issue as it has the potential to severely cripple the fitness industry.
