Peter Kuhm wrote:
the c-base is entirely financed by monthly membership fees.
Thanks, what is the c-base? Is it the e.V that runs metalab?
thus the c-base doesn't have enough members to cover the monthly costs (rent, power supply, etc...), the c-base has to let (lease) the mainhall to people who organise events. the rent is ca. 4.3k, with electricity and internet it's up to 5.5-6k. due to a very high back payment for electricity (2.5k) in the end of 2005 and for the basement rooms (2k) in 2006, the debts piled up and the c-base had trouble to keep up with the monthly payments. also the german collecting society GEMA repeatedly tries to squeeze money out the c-base. so far for the how did it happen...
to me, collecting society is a royalties association ... what has this to do with metalab? why is metalab responsible for royalties? is it playing too many MP3s??? iang