[asterisk-users] On-Hold Music

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:07:53PM -0600, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Friday 11 February 2011 16:37:49 Danny Nicholas wrote:
> > Hi gang,
> > 
> >             In 500 words or less (if possible), please explain what is a
> > legal music-on-hold file?  My boss hates the stuff provided with the
> > distribution and I figure that I'm asking for trouble if I take my Les
> > Mis tracks and run them through Audacity and SOX to make new files.
> 
> The proper licensing authority in the United States for hold music is
> BMI (Broadcast Music Inc).  If you use music for MOH which is not royalty-
> free, then BMI requires a payment for each trunk line per year which is
> using such music.  If you want to use for-royalty music, it is very
> possible, but it will be a continual expense.  Not paying the fees upfront
> will cost you dearly in legal fees at the point at which you are caught
> (it's really only a matter of time).

Note that the current MoH files distributed with Asterisk are licensed
under the terms of CC-BY-SA 3.0[1] which has an explicit references to
such royaltiy rights.

Also note that I'm not a lawyer and this is not a legal advice.

[1] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

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