At 11:19 AM +0200 9/23/06, Daniel Wolf wrote:
In Germany, the blanket licensing situation is very good, in that I can assume that radio stations, concert halls, schools, or churches will have paid their licenses, and if I can report the performance I will get paid from the blanket license. How true is that now in the US? Can I make the assumption that all schools and Universities have entered into a license arrangement or not?
Probably not. Those schools--and more likely universities than secondary schools--which do have blanket licenses probably have them to cover guest concerts presented on campus. This is because performance in the course of normal teaching at a bona fide non-profit educational institution is one of the few exemptions from payment of performance royalties in the Fair Use Guidelines--an exemption very tightly written, but still an exemption. Still, someone who has actually dealt with this on behalf of a school would know better than I.
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