{"id":301,"date":"2010-12-07T11:18:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T19:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/?p=301"},"modified":"2016-02-29T21:29:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T05:29:22","slug":"french-salons-got-quiet-to-protest-music-rate-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/french-salons-got-quiet-to-protest-music-rate-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"French salons go quiet to protest music rate hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/eiffel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-302\" title=\"eiffel\" src=\"http:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/eiffel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hair salons in France were eerily quiet today as salons shut off their sound systems in protest against the doubling of the licensing fees required to play music in their establishments.\u00a0 Salons, shops, cafes and even car parks have to pay a levy to play music on their premises.\u00a0 The tax is in the range of 24 \u20ac to 36 \u20ac, but is set to double in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The French F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Nationale de la Coiffure estimates that salons pay about \u20ac1.3m a year\u00a0 in music levies and that it will increase to \u20ac7.3m with the new changes.<\/p>\n<p>Most clients were shocked to learn that their salon has to pay licensing fees to play music.<\/p>\n<p>Spotted at: http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/dec\/07\/france-hairdressers-music-tax-protest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hair salons in France were eerily quiet today as salons shut off their sound systems in protest against the doubling of the licensing fees required to play music in their establishments.\u00a0 Salons, shops, cafes and even car parks have to pay a levy to play music on their premises.\u00a0 The tax is in the range &#8230; <a title=\"French salons go quiet to protest music rate hikes\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/french-salons-got-quiet-to-protest-music-rate-hikes\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about French salons go quiet to protest music rate hikes\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,69],"tags":[114,71,115,116],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-music","tag-france","tag-music-2","tag-paris","tag-piracy","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3179,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/3179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}