Online Audio

Online Audio

5 December 2004

Record Stores


Most labels and artists (the holders of the copyright) do not mind and will not enforce their copyright if you wish to play RealAudio clips from a CD that you are selling through your store. However, they do have the legal (and moral) right to request you not do that, and to collect money for performance.

just playing little sections for the purposes of an online record store is still a performance rights issue, and not really then a harry fox domain.

i think for the full legal then you have to deal with bmi/ascap, no label you are selling would want to enforce copyright.

i mean technically every record store has to pay bmi/ascap because
they are playing records in a public place ! every restraunt /bar/ club does so already. i don't think its enforced for record stores.

"Radio"

Primer on the Law of Webcasting and Digital Music Delivery by Bob Kohn, September, 1998 (note this is out of date now):
http://www.kohnmusic.com/

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