----- "Olivier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A somehow related question, is broadcasting streaming music as music > on hold, submitted to any licencing fee ?
I got here late. The only way you can legally use music as music on hold is if you either pay, or are not subject to pay, performance royalty money to *someone*. Who you might pay includes BMI, ASCAP, and SESAC, who have standardized annual blanket licenses for that sort of thing, which permit you to play any music to which they've been assigned the right to collect and disburse such monies. Or, if you have recordings directly from an act who have not sold their rights to, say, a music label, they could license you directly. Or you could play the music yourself. But note that if you do *that*, while you aren't liable for performance royalties, you as a performer will own the songwriter(s) money, usually in the form of compulsory mechanical royalties. How those are handled if you record your own arrangement of Hey Jude once and loop it on music on hold, I'm not clear on. No, IANAL. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Josef Stalin) _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
