Posts Tagged ‘permission’
Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Dear Law and Disorder: I have read your clearly stated articles about mechanical use and rights. What about “fair use”? Aren’t there specific scenarios where permission is not needed to use a recording of someone else’s music? Beware of what you ask. You are about to open a box whereupon […]
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Tags: Brian Taylor, copyright, copyright act, copyright infringement, copyright law, creator, Education, excerpts, Goldstein, image, marketing, music, parody, permission, public domain, recording
Posted in Agents, Artist Management, Arts Management, Copyrights, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Liability, Licensing, Music Rights, Non-Profits, Presenters, Publishing, Recordings, Venues | Comments Off on “Fair Use” Just Isn’t Fair!
Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Dear Law and Disorder: A few weeks ago you wrote a great article about how to obtain a mechanical license when someone wants to record music. But what about using a recording that already exists? We would like to promote an upcoming concert at our venue by putting some recordings […]
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Tags: artist, Brian Taylor, composer, composition, compositions, copyright, copyright law, Film, Goldstein, license, mechanical license, music, musician, payment, permission, public domain, record label, recording, venue
Posted in Artist Management, Arts Management, Copyrights, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Licensing, Music Rights, Presenters, Publishing, Recordings, Venues | Comments Off on Using Existing Recordings–Not So Fast!
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Dear Law and Disorder: Does all music (if not in public domain) require a mechanical license to be recorded? I don’t quite understand when it is needed and when a person could pay a statutory fee and move forward without permission. Yes, anytime you want to make an audio recording […]
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Tags: Brian Taylor, copyright, copyright act, Goldstein, license, live performance, mechanical license, music, musical composition, permission, public domain, recording, statutory fee, statutory requirements, synchronization license, u s copyright office
Posted in Artist Management, Arts Management, Copyrights, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Licensing, Music Rights, Publishing, Recordings | Comments Off on The Mechanics of Mechanical Licenses
Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Dear Law and Disorder, I am a music professor at a medium-sized state college. We have two questions with regard to live streaming some of our concerts and recitals. We, of course, have paid the ASCAP and BMI licenses/fees to cover the rights for live performances. I believe the licensing […]
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Tags: ascap, bmi, Brian Taylor, composer, copyright, Education, Goldstein, license, Licensing, live performance, live performances, music, Non-Profits, performer, permission, recitals
Posted in Arts Management, Copyrights, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Licensing, Music Rights, Non-Profits, Presenters, Publishing, Recordings | Comments Off on Ask, and Ye “May” Receive…or Not
Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Dear Law and Disorder: May we loan music that we own for orchestral performances by other non-profit organizations (schools, community orchestras, etc? Would the other group still need to obtain performing/recording permissions? Could we be liable if they don’t? It depends how define “own.” If by “own”, you mean that […]
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Tags: Brian Taylor, community orchestras, copyright, copyright infringement, copyrightable material, Goldstein, Liable, license, orchestra, orchestral performances, orchestras, ownership, permission, recording, sheet music
Posted in Arts Management, Contracts, Copyrights, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Liability, Licensing, Music Rights, Non-Profits, Recordings | Comments Off on Can We Loan Sheet Music?
Wednesday, November 21st, 2012
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Dear Law and Disorder: I have a small venue. All 3 licensing companies are claiming I need to pay them for my karaoke and music that occurs weekly, but the bands that I have sign contracts making sure they only play their original music, nothing copyrighted. These companies have been […]
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Tags: ascap, bmi, breach, Brian Taylor, composers, copyright, copyright infringement, Goldstein, karaoke nights, license, Licensing, music, original music, performance license, performing music, permission, public venue
Posted in Arts Management, Copyrights, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Liability, Licensing, Music Rights, Venues | Comments Off on Does Original Music Exist Anymore?
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. I own the video footage of a performance by a dance company. Recently, I learned that another choreographer purchased a license from the dance company to recreate and perform the same work. However, they used a copy of my video to help in recreating the choreography. In other words, they […]
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Tags: Brian Taylor, choreographer, choreography, contract, copyright, creative works, dance, dance company, Goldstein, license, Licensing, ownership, performance rights, permission, playwright, royalty, video footage, videographer, videotape, videotapes, work
Posted in Arts Management, Contracts, Copyrights, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Licensing, Recordings | Comments Off on Can They Dance Away With My Copyright?
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
By Brian Taylor Goldstein Can you answer this question for us? My soon to be son-in-law is a musician. He has written and recorded many songs, and is producing his first CD. One of the songs on the CD, he had a female friend sing with him. If he plans to put this song on […]
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Tags: Brian Taylor, contract, copyright, copyright infringement, Goldstein, license, manager, music, musician, ownership, permission, recording, release, royalties
Posted in Artist Management, Arts Management, Contracts, Copyrights, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Licensing, Music Rights, Publishing, Recordings | Comments Off on Listen To Your Mother and Get It In Writing!
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
By Brian Taylor Goldstein Dear Law & Disorder: I recently came across the website of an artist management agency in Europe where they had posted the following: “The press review is temporarily not available. German newspapers Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Süddeutsche Zeitung recently started to pursue institutions and artists using texts (press reviews, interviews, commentaries […]
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Tags: agent, artist, Brian Taylor, cannot make copies, commentaries, commercial context, copy, copyright, copyright infringement, european countries, Goldstein, license, Licensing, manager, permission, photograph, quotations
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2012
By Brian Taylor Goldstein We teach classes, put on concerts and run festivals. At all of these events we take photos of the participants along with the members of our group. We want to be able to use the photos on Facebook and our website. So I am looking for a “blurb” to put in […]
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Tags: audience members, Brian Taylor, crowd, endorsement, facebook, Goldstein, necessary language, participants, permission, photograph, publicity campaign, release, right of privacy
Posted in Artist Management, Arts Management, Copyrights, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Licensing | Comments Off on A Magic Blurb