On 16 Jan 2009, malcra...@aol.com wrote: > How does copyright effect performance.? > Especaillay if an enterance charge is made,
For all "performances", paid or otherwise, and this includes sessions in pubs, someone is supposed to sit there writing down everything that is played. This list is then submitted to PRS along with 5% of the takings at a paid event, and the royalties are distributed to any registered copyright holders with the residue going to CC. And a non- paying event gets charged for any copyright tunes. Some folk festivals and sessions have already been clobbered by this. In practice, well..... you can imagine the reaction of the average session musician - it doesn't take many fingers! At best, all tunes suddenly become "trad." > or For example at a funeral? I am uncertain of the position in regards to "church" and / or "private" events - which your example could be classified as. I think there may be a dispensation. And then there's when does a private party become a house session, or house concert..... Please, just don't go there!! <grin> Julia To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
