Ben Diss Wrote: > So, if I get this right, I can play one CD and 100 people can listen and > that's OK. I can play that same CD and feed the signal to 10 sets of > speakers where 10 people per speaker set listen and that's OK. But, if > I rip the CD and send the signal to 10 SB's driving 10 sets of speakers > where 10 people listen to each set, it's illegal. > > Doesn't sound right to me. Forget about what RIAA's draconian > interpretation is. Does it sound right to you? Is it fair use? I just did some googling. It's actually ASCAP/BMI that licenses music for public performance.
http://www.ascap.com/licensing/generalfaq.html I was mistaken about there being any chance that piping a single stream of music throughout the office would be permitted without a license. > Public Performance or Performance Rights > > A public performance is one that occurs "in a place open to the public > or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a > normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered." A > public performance also occurs when the performance is transmitted by > means of any device or process (for example, via broadcast, telephone > wire, or other means) to the public. In order to perform a copyrighted > work publicly, the user must obtain performance rights from the > copyright owner or his representative. http://www.ascap.com/licensing/termsdefined.html -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24891 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
