[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: Performance Licences
Surely the license fee is the cost of the arrangement.
Some music can only be rented and that is how a composer
gets paid but when you buy an arrangement it inlcudes the performance
rights
but not recording rights. That should be stated as whether it is included.
SInce a lot of live music is public domain the law would be hard to apply
there.
It could be argued (Where is Rumpole when you need him?)
that there was an implied consent with a precedent of at least
800- 1000 years that you are allowed to perform music you have bought.
Would a church have to pay to sing a hymn?
Will they make you pay a fee toi practice if the neighbours can hear you?
SO will they charge the local band a fee to perform PD
music in the park.
Just when you think a government cannot come up with something
even stupider than before..
In Canada they decided to register all guns and thought it would cost
$2,000,000 to implement.
The current cost is over $1,000,000,000.
No criminals are stepping forward to register their
illegal handguns but a lot of farmers have to register
the old .22 they use for the odd wild dog that's after the cows.
I think there is a lesson there.
Graham J. Young B.Mus B.Ed
Hamilton Musician Services
Celebration Brass
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