Re: [microsound] mix cd's pt 2

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On Monday, February 2, 2004, at 06:36 PM, Rob wrote:

> DJs (who buy a lot of music) would be unlikely to purchase underground 
> dance records at all if they thought they were going to be prosecuted.
>
> This is why I proposed a DJ license, this way producers could give 
> permission to play the record in public in advance with the purchase 
> of the record itself.

As far as I know, DJ's do not have to have permission to play records 
in a club. It is the responsibility of the club-owner to secure the 
appropriate licensing to allow for the playing of copyrighted works in 
their establishment. Same goes for a restaurant and even for radio 
stations. The venue takes on whatever liability there might be. Now 
whether or not the venue actually pays the licensing fees is another 
issue altogether. My guess is that a venue that typically hosts live 
original music and hence pays no licensing fees, might not even 
consider it an issue that a DJ is gonna show up and play other peoples 
copyrighted music.


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