Threatened with lawsuits, Baton Rouge bar and restaurant owners have little choice but to buy rights for copyrighted music

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Music plays incessantly at restaurants, bars, coffee shops, hotels, gyms and grocery stores. It’s heard at sporting events and social functions. And because music is so omnipresent, it’s easy to assume there’s no cost involved for business owners. But there is. Under federal copyright law, bars, restaurants and any other business that plays copyrighted music—any

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