[Asterisk-Users] MOH: Copyright issues?

[Steve Kennedy]

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?

It will be country specific, in the UK you had to pay a license to PRS
(now MCPS I think), they charge PER line that music can be played from.


Steve

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