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If someone buys your work, and there is mutual consent in writing that they can do with it as they please, then that is OK under the law.
If someone buys your work and uses it for commercial purposes without your consent - playing it at a political rally, for instance - that is a violation of copyright law.
Geez, you law-and-order conservative types can't even get this simple law straight. No wonder this country is such a mess.
Cover Bands that sing other musicians music....
Happens nightly in Austin Texas, in over 100 venues.
Now, it is for profit and violates copyright legislation..... Who is screaming?
You think cover bands don't pay for the right to perform others' music?
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
The garage band playing for a half dozen of their friends in the garage, probably not; but a band playing in a commercial establishment? You bet your naive ass those songs are generating royalties, either from the band or through the commercial venue - usually through the venue. A bar can't host cover bands without royalties being paid one way or another.
A cover band playing in a small bar is one thing. A politician using a specific song at a rally in front of thousands of people is another matter entirely.
You think cover bands don't pay for the right to perform others' music?
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
The garage band playing for a half dozen of their friends in the garage, probably not; but a band playing in a commercial establishment? You bet your naive ass that band is paying royalties, either themselves or through the commercial venue. A bar can't host cover bands without paying royalties one way or another.
Nope. Not in Austin, Tx. the way you think. The live music capital of the world.
They do it by purchasing the sheet music.
Same way HS & College Marching Bands do.
Nope. Not in Austin, Tx. the way you think. The live music capital of the world.
They do it by purchasing the sheet music.
Same way HS & College Marching Bands do.
Marching bands don't "purchase sheet music". The sheet music comes with permission to perform the music from the publisher of the sheet music, which pays royalties to the composer.
You really ought to read up on the topic before posting again. Save yourself some embarrassment.
And I'll bet you a billion bad covers of "Free Bird" that those live music venues in Austin have some sort of blanket agreement with BMI, etc., to host cover bands.
Once they buy it they own it and can do what ever they wish with it, as long as it is within the law for it's use.
That is the law, for things anyone creates. Keep it for yourself and have all the control. Sell it and you sell all rights to it, use. Only copying it and redistribution for profit, is unlawful.
Bars and restaurants pay a yearly fee to a number of organizations. Sometimes its in the thousands per year for a license. That allows cover bands to play at that particular bar. School districts, colleges, municipalities all pay the fee too.
That's what Nashville is all about. Its not as much about country music as it is about songwriting. It allows the song writer and the song performer, who these days are two different people, to earn a living off a single song.
Last edited by thriftylefty; 10-30-2018 at 10:18 AM..
Wow. What you don’t know about this topic is s lot. But please, keep posting misinformed information, it’s amusing how embarrassed you must be.
You better read through this thread. If the venue has been given the rights to play the music -- by the music company -- and if there is a contract stating such - then the artist has no say in the matter.
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