There might be an uninformed bias for some people. But there is a very well informed one for many others. Just a few examples... - Gema is a monopoly and has (

There might be an uninformed bias for some people. But there is a very well informed one for many others. Just a few examples... - Gema is a monopoly and has (until now) successfully used it's political power to stay one. The last chairman of the board of directors even boasted that Gema has managed to "avoid useless competition". - 65% of the money Gema passes on goes to 5% of it's members, the full members. These 3400 full members of Gema are also the ones who elect the people who get a job on the board and the committees. Those then decide how the money Gets distributed. Sounds legit! [1] - If a band plays their own songs in a concert, and the organizer has to pay 300€ to Gema for this, which then gives 2.80€ back to the band at the end of the year - that's not even the worsts case. [2] [1] https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fr-online.de%2Fkultur%2Fstreit-um-gema-gebuehren-gema--der-club-der-oberen-3400%2C1472786%2C16472672.html https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=h... [2] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fbrunokramm.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F12%2F15%2Fdiezweiklassen%2F&edit-text= https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev...