[asterisk-users] Streaming MoH on 1.4

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Thursday 18 September 2008 18:13:44 Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> 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.

It's exactly the same, whether it's your own recording or not, since you did
not compose the music or the lyrics, and you probably did not arrange it,
either.  If you want to be perfectly legal, you'd still need to pay royalties
for the public performance of the work in question.  By the way, if you're
caught using works without paying the proper royalties, the fines are many
times larger than the cost to license the work in the first place, so it is
definitely worth your while to pony up.

That said, there are publishing companies who will happily license multiple
works to you for use as Music on Hold.  One of my favorites, though by no
means the only one, is eclassical.com, which offers reasonable rates on
classical music for use as music-on-hold.

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Tilghman