May 4th 04, 08:06 PM
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On 4 May 2004 16:48:49 GMT, (G) wrote:
- How to protect myself against the possibility of someone sending me
copyrighted music, not belonging to them, but pretending it does? It
is obviously impossible to check that such or such song was not
actually recorded or written by someone else...
Err.. Guaranteeing that so that you don't have to pay fees will be an
interesting task. But then that's why Insurance gets sold. Getting covered
for this type of liability might be a problem, of course. Are you prepared to
lose your house and car if someone sues?
- Is there a standard contract enabling an artist to allow a
broadcaster to use their music free of charge (knowing in this case
that the artist, through the promotion, is very much the beneficary,
and knowing that the program itself is non-profit making)?
If someone lifted someone else's music, a contract with the artist wouldn't
protect you. And how much bandwidth are you preparing to buy? a T1 will
support about 30 50kbps streams. Actually less since there is other overhead
involved. They go for between $500 and $1800 a month, depending on which ISP
and phone company you have and how far you are from the CO. Or you could go
for a t3 (about 3 T1s) for about 90-100 streams that wide. Or if you want
something a tad better sounding, cut those figures significantly.
ASCAP and BMI might still come after you looking for infringements. I cut a
CD for a trombone quintet at a college north of Charlotte. They were going to
use the recording as a fund raiser. It was all Black Spirituals, arranged for
that group. Guess what they found after the fact. One of the pieces that
they thought was public domain wasn't... They ended up paying rights after the
fact big time.
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