![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/top_left_1.gif) |
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/top_left_2.gif) |
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/top_span.gif) |
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/top_right_1.gif) |
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/top_right_2.gif) |
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/left_span.gif) |
#57182 - 07/10/06 12:40 PM
Re: copyright
|
Senior Member
Registered: 01/16/02
Posts: 2330
Loc: North Yorkshire UK
|
There is some very good advice available here : http://www.prs.co.uk/ and here : http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/ I believe you would be technically breaching copyright, even if you gave your CDs away! Another thing that is often overlooked but only rarely enforced, is the Performing Rights Society (PRS) issue. When you perform music at a public venue, the organiser or proprietor of the venue, should be registered with and licensed by the PRS, for the public performance of music. Furthermore, the person or persons performing the music, is responsible for submitting a written list, of the music played during their performance, to the 'licensee', who should possess suitable PRS forms. The list should contain the titles of the individual songs/tunes played, together with the Composer's name if known and possibly arranger and Copyright holder if known. If you are playing from written arrangements, then this information is relatively easy to find. However, busking an entire performance makes it a bit difficult ![](http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/smile.gif) When I had my own band, in the 12 years we were together, I was only asked a handful of times, to complete one of these forms! Technically, the PRS issue even applies to playing recorded music in a doctor's waiting room!! ------------------ Willum
_________________________
Willum
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music. Aldous Huxley ( especially when the music is played on a KN7000....)
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/right_span.gif) |
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/bottom_left_1.gif) |
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/bottom_left_2.gif) |
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/bottom_span.gif) |
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/bottom_right_1.gif) |
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/bottom_right_2.gif) |
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/top_left_1.gif) |
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/top_left_2.gif) |
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/top_span.gif) |
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/top_right_1.gif) |
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/top_right_2.gif) |
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/left_span.gif) |
#57184 - 07/11/06 10:20 AM
Re: copyright
|
Member
Registered: 12/27/99
Posts: 218
Loc: Rutherfordton, NC
|
Hi, Not a problem for us (Walt Tenay Keyboard Studios) Play Like A Pro Series are all Legit, registered by the original artist with the appropriate licensing fees paid. Scott you shouldn't make an assumption just because were selling on Ebay. You should have read the complete listing. However we are all going to jail if you play professional, use midi seq, Technics sequencing your own arrangement of any copyright songs that you play and have not paid your "dues" Big Brother is watching you. I haven't given this much thought for fifty years, since this is rarely enforced. For the original question, if your giving your cd away, I dont think you have much to worry about. In reality all the members of this forum (me too at some time or another) that pass around midi songs, Technics sequences, copies of music, styles are all in violation of copyright laws. Bread and Water served Wednesday and Fridays First Come First Served. Walt Originally posted by nsr007: Willum, you are technically correct but few abide by the laws, even though you can get your butt fined seriously and jail time if caught. I played for years in bands and performed in New York and San Francisco and never ran into signing anything and I seriously doubt that the club owners ever paid a dime towards copyright laws. Gee, don't tell Walt Tanay this - he sells "professionally arranged songs" on eBay. Look out, Walt, you might end up in the slammer. When I put out my CD album in 1997, I had to pay Harry Fox Agency a pretty good sum of money for 13 of the 16 songs I put out. Three of the songs were written by me so there was no fee involved on them. According to copyright laws in America, you can be fined $10,000, and get 10 years in jail - not to be taken lightly. I doubt seriously that giving your CDs away constitutes any wrongdoing for there is no money involved.
Scott
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/right_span.gif) |
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/bottom_left_1.gif) |
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/bottom_left_2.gif) |
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/bottom_span.gif) |
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/bottom_right_1.gif) |
![](http://www.synthzone.com/forum/styles/images/black_and_gold/bottom_right_2.gif) |
|
|