What if a tape that I produced ends up on JamBase Rhapsody? Who owns the rights to the Sound Recording?
All of the sound recordings submitted to the Live Archive were submitted by the bands themselves. For the most part, the bands submitted sound recordings that they made themselves. Soundboard recordings are always requested from the bands to keep the sound quality on The JamBase Live Archive top notch. In a few instances, the bands may have submitted a recording made by a third-party taper with the permission of such taper. While it is not clear to us that a taper’s permission is legally required, to our knowledge, none of the sound recordings submitted to the Live Archive were taken from any taper without permission. Keep in mind that two sound recordings may sound nearly identical. When a band allows tapers to plug into its soundboard, the band is also making its own sound recording from the same source. Similarly, many tapes are often recorded from the same source mics or matrix mix. The bands own the rights to their own sound recordings of their own live music, unless a particular
