Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-vgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!brl-vgr!ron From: ron@brl-vgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: re: Copyright Violations Message-ID: <2739@brl-vgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 08:47:59 EST Article-I.D.: brl-vgr.2739 Posted: Tue Mar 20 08:47:59 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 02:10:24 EST References: unc.6934 <6938@cca.UUCP> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 17 I can tell you from being heavily associated with many student activities at college that playing a song in public and performing plays are both subject copyrights and royalties. Even classical works (both music and play) are subject since it is most likely that you are using as a base someone's arrangement or production which IS still copyrighted. With regard to music we had one blanket agreement that covered concerts, background music, and the campus radio station (although the way they agreed on the fees was sort of convoluted) with each of the major licensing firms (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC). Even non-broadcast carrier current stations are subject. Plays were negotiated with the people we bought the scripts from. Arrangements ranged from just buying the specified number of copies of the script to fixed rates to percentages or "per seat" charages. -Ron