northland10 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 8:54 amActually, you would need permission for public performance though a great deal of music under copyright in my world allows for public performance without an extra license (labels and publishers can still be a pest and try to try and fine scout camps for singing a song written for the scouts).Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 8:32 am I think enough musicians complained that someone looked into the laws on compulsary licensing and explained them to someone in the Trump circle. "Oh, wait, we don't NEED their permission if we record a mostly faithful cover of the song ourselves? We just have to pay a fee per digital download?"
It's the paying of the fee per digital download that will trip them up, of course. Trump don't pay.
However, recording or streaming can be different. We have a site license not only for reprinting music and text in the bulletin but streaming over Zoom (and a few older things on YouTube). For those where the author and composer have been dead for 70 years, those are generally public domain.
Just curious, but what about a recorded performance by a band that not all the members or even none of the members wrote the music? Think, most Beatles songs. Does the 70 years topll if by some event Paul McCarney dies*? How about their recording of "Twist and Shout which they made a big hit but none of them wrote? Do all of the Beatles have to die before their records start tolling?
I've always been kind of interested in that since I first read the story of Micheal Jackson buying Northern Songs while Paul McCartney was looking the other way in the 80s. Conrary to his nice guy image, Sir Paul is said to have had a throw things across the room hissy fit when he found out, he had been trying to buy Northern Songs, the Beatles Publishing subsidiary that Dick James beat them out of in 1968 sine then. There is even a few minutes of dialogue about this in part one of the Get Back film Peter Jackson did, Paul and John wondering out loud how Dick James is screwing them....
*Super secret they don't want you to know, he gets the same child blood transfusions as Keith Richards and will live longer than the cockroaches.