Who has to pay music performance rights?
• Does a venue’s ASCAP, BMI or SESAC license cover the use of a recording? What is a music performance right? It is one of the rights available to be granted by a copyright holder to another party. A work is protected for a set term of years, during which time the creator, the owner, and a designated agent, if any, are eligible for compensation. The compensation helps to offset the costs involved in creating, notating, promoting, housing, and generally looking after an individual work as well as a catalogue of works by a composer. Under what circumstances do I need to clear performance rights? Broadly stated, if you are considering a work written during the 20th or 21st centuries, the recent copyright extension is likely to protect it. (Written meaning created as distinct from published, that is physically available with a copyright date attached.) If a work was published in 1923 or later (that is, you are looking at a printed score and the copyright notice is dated 1923), it is protec
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- Do I need to pay performance royalties to, for example, the Performing Rights Society (PRS) because I use Music On Hold from White Beetle Ltd?
- Why would I ever want to license music performance rights directly from composers and publishers or through my program suppliers?
- What are music public performance rights?
