Well not all publishers are members of SOCAN, but I imagine most of the big labels are, and SOCAN have deals with other copyright collectives in other countries, so that their work is also covered.
So in general the safe assumption is to presume it covers all copyrighted music. The main intention of these things is to collect royalties where it would be difficult to do so on a 'per case' basis. Eg a radio station plays so many tracks, they dont want to have to do a deal with each record company every time they play a song, so they keep playlists which are submitted to the rights body, who then calculate royalties and share those royaltis with its members. So if you are an artist who copyrights their work, youd probably want to join one of these things so that you get your royalty cheque. Now in your example of the friend with a band, it would depend on whether that band had signed any deals. Those deals might have reassigned the copyright for their songs to the record label. Unless the friend has retained the right to personally give or sell licenses to use the work to other people, then he doesnt have the right to give you permission to use the song. The record company could come after you, because they are the copyright holder and you dont have their permission. You are most likely to have SOCAN and others demanding you get a license from them, if you are are repeatedly using music. Im sure there have been cases where the venue or company has claimed it only uses public domain or other music it has the right to, in which case SOCAN might look for a specific violation, eg singing happy birthday, to use as an example. But generally they arent copyright police who will go after each and every person who violates the copyright of specific musicians, they are looking for venues, companies, radio shows, and now it seems podcasts, that are regularily performing copyrighted music. And SOCAN only cover the performance rights, not mechanical rights, which some other copyright collective will deal with. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Charles Iliya Krempeaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Is it only certain label's that are included in this? Or everyone who > makes music (no mater what they want)? > > So... let's say I have a friend who has a band. I use his music in a > video I put on the Internet. Do I have to pay SOCAN? > > > See ya > > On 4/18/07, Steve Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Socan's own description of what they do in general, will hopefully > > make sense of the issue. The problem is the term music being used too > > broadly, the assumption being there isnt any other sort of music that > > people would use. > > > > http://www.socan.ca/jsp/en/music_users/ > > > > So anyway it gives you the right to use music from most of the major > > publishers etc. > > > > Another way of looking at it is that things like 'podsafe music' are > > safe from this sort of thing, socan cant touch you if you arent using > > copyrighted music. > > > > Its a bargain if you ask me. > > > > Steve Elbows > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "David Meade" <meade.dave@> > > wrote: > > > > > > ?! ...... !? > > > > > > On 4/18/07, Casey McKinnon <caseymckinnon@> wrote: > > > > WTF? > > > > > > > > http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1882/125/ > > > > > > > > C. > > > > > > > > --- > > > > http://galacticast.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > http://www.DavidMeade.com > > -- > Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. > > charles @ reptile.ca > supercanadian @ gmail.com > > developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/ > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Make Television http://maketelevision.com/ > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Cars, Motorcycles, Trucks, and Racing... http://tirebiterz.com/ >
