On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:07:53PM -0600, Tilghman Lesher wrote: > On Friday 11 February 2011 16:37:49 Danny Nicholas wrote: > > Hi gang, > > > > In 500 words or less (if possible), please explain what is a > > legal music-on-hold file? My boss hates the stuff provided with the > > distribution and I figure that I'm asking for trouble if I take my Les > > Mis tracks and run them through Audacity and SOX to make new files. > > The proper licensing authority in the United States for hold music is > BMI (Broadcast Music Inc). If you use music for MOH which is not royalty- > free, then BMI requires a payment for each trunk line per year which is > using such music. If you want to use for-royalty music, it is very > possible, but it will be a continual expense. Not paying the fees upfront > will cost you dearly in legal fees at the point at which you are caught > (it's really only a matter of time).
Note that the current MoH files distributed with Asterisk are licensed under the terms of CC-BY-SA 3.0[1] which has an explicit references to such royaltiy rights. Also note that I'm not a lawyer and this is not a legal advice. [1] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.co...@xorcom.com +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.co...@xorcom.com http://www.xorcom.com iax:gu...@local.xorcom.com/tzafrir -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users