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None of us make a living from music (unless you count the crumhorn/cornetto guy who makes most of his income at an instrument repair shop). I'm a law school reference librarian. We make “opportunities” to play for free quite often, at non-profit fundraisers for causes we support, university functions, our own churches, our own homes … and the union works with the Music Performance Trust Fund, that pays us pretty regularly to perform at convalescent centers, libraries, schools, etc. I spend countless hours creating music for myself, driven by a fundamental urge to create; e.g., playing through a foot-high stack of piano trios with a couple of friends, stopping in the middle for tea and a snack around sunset. You're dead on there. But there's no way in hell I'm going to play free for someone who's charging admission at the gate. And if a for-profit entity were earning money distributing/streaming recordings of any performance of mine, I would want a reasonable stake! That shouldn't be hard to comprehend. Despite any publicity it might afford me, raking it in without giving me a cut is a RIP OFF, plain and simple.