Bruce writes:
>There are several community radio stations in my area as I'm on the
>boundary between 3 local shires (councils, counties?). I was thinking of
>approaching one of them with the idea of webcasting using Real audio (or
>NetShow or both).
>
>I've done some live events recently and all went well. (one had the faculty
>Dean talking so I was a little bit nervous about it. ;-) ie stuff that up
>and stuff up any future chance of doing it again.)
>
>So I'm not so much worried about technical issues but rather copyright
>ones. I had seen at least one link to a radio station from the Realnet site
>that seems to have taken itself off the "air" (net) until this is resolved.
I am afraid that my first answer was a bit inadequate. So, here is more...
College radio stations have agreements (with ASCAP/BMI/SESAC, and others) to
broadcast songs. To the extent that they broadcast things other than music,
they have agreements with others. Your agreements with them must take the
pre-existing contracts into account.
Generally, absent a copyright, the "person" who fixes the "broadcast" in a
tangible medium if expression, e.g. a tape, owns the copyright in the tape.
Speakers who appear on that tape should have signed some agreement
disclaiming the property in the speech and granting the copyright owner
exclusive worldwide license to broadcast it and use it in other media.
This is all negotiable. You may want to engage legal counsel. As a matter
of fact, you _should_ engage legal counsel.
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sjf
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Scott J. Fine
Fine Hummel, P.C.
Attorneys At Law
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516.351.2100
<http://www.finehummel.com>
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