[Asterisk-Users] MOH: Copyright issues?

[andrewg at felinemenace.org]

G'day,

Just as a random side note, IIRC, in Australia a couple of years ago 
Telstra lost a law case regarding music on hold.

Google turned up the following url:
www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/38201

This doesn't really answer your question regarding those specific files,
but as part of Ruxcon organising (www.ruxcon.org - a computer security 
conference in Sydney, Australia </shameless-plug>) I was talking to the
ARPA people; they seemed eager++ to talk to people to insure you weren't
breaking copyrights, so you could talk to them about it...

With regards to Ruxcon, we were covered by UTS's site license.

Hope this helps,
Andrew Griffiths

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 03:14:48AM -0500, Brian Capouch wrote:
> After reading a (hopefully) joke web news article today that said the 
> RIAA was thinking about asking automobile owners to pay extra royalties 
> when there's more than one passenger in the car, I began to worry about 
>  putting the classic 1974 Pointer Sisters' tune, "Little Pony" in my 
> mohmp3 directory.
> 
> I know I can always explicitly search out "royalty free" music, but I 
> wonder if my 50+ year old recordings of The Sons of the Pioneers, or the 
> CD of Clara Rockmore playing a Theremin I bought at the Exploratorium, 
> would wind up with me in the slammer (or the poorhouse!!) if I put them 
> on my system?
> 
> Does anyone know a way of knowing where a given recording of a song stands?
> 
> Thx.
> 
> B.
> 
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