Kind of an aside to the OP but still regarding ethics. Don't know if this has happened in other parts of the U.S. but I don't see why not. ASCAP or BMI (not sure which, maybe both) have hired local musicians to go undercover and search out clubs that don't pay royalty fees and then rat them out along with the musicians that play those clubs. I know of several musicians who lost regular long-term weekly gigs due to this. The question is who deserves the term 'unethical' to be attached to their name the most, ASCAP or BMI for coming up with the idea, the club owner for not paying royalty fees, or the musician(s) doing the ratting-out?