No, I'm not looking to get into the music bidness. What I wonder about is copyright and when and where you can play the music.
Say I wanted to use some background music on a powerpoint presentation that will be shown at a trade show. What are the copyright issues if any? Since I'm not charging to see the powerpoint, is there an issue or do I still fall under some obscure category?
If so, anyone want to lend me the rights to their tunes?
It's been years since I played music for any occasion, but I seem to remember something like: if you are not collecting any money from anyone during your use of the music, you can play it live, recorded, sampled or anything else. If you do receive monetary gain, you either have to have permission or at the very least acknowledge the artist.
Again, this is just my burned out memory talking, but that's what rings in my head.
land_shark3 wrote:Hmm, have I actually stumped the BN crowd?
Seems like.. I am thinking if you could get ahold of Key Lime Lee he could help
maybe an Email over at his site??
Any luck on an answer? I am curious as well....
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scubamyk wrote:It's been years since I played music for any occasion, but I seem to remember something like: if you are not collecting any money from anyone during your use of the music, you can play it live, recorded, sampled or anything else. If you do receive monetary gain, you either have to have permission or at the very least acknowledge the artist.
As far as copyright is concerned, monetary gain is irrelevent. Copyright law prohibits reproduction, distribution or broadcast of copyrighted works, regardless of whether there is monetary gain.
So technically using songs in a publically broadcast powerpoint presentation would violate copyright law... but I'd suspect its unlikely anyone in the crowd will turn you in.
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Key Lime Lee wrote:As far as copyright is concerned, monetary gain is irrelevent. Copyright law prohibits reproduction, distribution or broadcast of copyrighted works, regardless of whether there is monetary gain.
So technically using songs in a publically broadcast powerpoint presentation would violate copyright law... but I'd suspect its unlikely anyone in the crowd will turn you in.
Unfortunately, at the trade show we will be attending, they almost always have someone from whatever music protection group going around to verify that you have "permission" to use the music.
But thank you for the clarification. Many of the websites have been rather vague.
