Recent posts about the musicians at the Festival Tango got me thinking about the subject of music copyright outside Argentina, and whether any of the fees we paid to our national copyright collector ever got to the the rightful recipients.
As regular organisers of milongas, we are obviously the target of copyright agencies (whether or not they actually represent the music we use), but this is a kind of legalized extortion/annoyance that is practised everywhere. If I understand it correctly, the disbursement of fees is based on sampling of radio airplay and not actual use. Since there is zero airplay of tango in our country, this means that almost all money collected will end up in the pockets of American companies instead of Argentina. I am also interested to know if there is a registry of copyright-expired and public domain compositions anywhere? This could be a great resource for those involved in making tango videos, promotional clips and flegling bands starting out. Kace _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
