Re: [Finale] TAN: MP3 public playback of Bartok Andante from HaromRondo nepi

[David H. Bailey]

Bartok's music is still protected by copyright so you would be breaking 
copyright law by posting it without obtaining written permission and 
paying whatever royalty the copyright holder wanted to charge you -- 
there hasn't been any clearcut legal decision on whether posting music 
is a performance or a mechanical copy.  And with an potential audience 
of millions, either royalty will be prohibitively expensive for an 
individual to post a single file.  If it's a performance, each time 
another person listens, it's a new performance, since the likelihood of 
two people listening at precisely the same instance is pretty slim.  And 
if it's a mechanical copy, each time the file reaches a different 
computer, it's a new copy.



Paul Copeland wrote:
Hello everyone.

I want to create an mp3 file of the Bartok piano piece 

Andante
from Harom rondo nepi dallamokkai Sz84
I would like to put the mp3 file up at my mp3.com.au site.

Am I legally able to do this or is there copyright/performance rights
restrictions?
Many thanks for your assistance.

Paul Copeland
www.mp3.com.au/paulcopeland (#1 Contemporary, #1 Classical #5, All)
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