I thought you were going to kill all the ragheads first. I'm switching my vote to tigerchick. Where is she anyway?
I don't know where @tigerchick46 is, we will be on the same ticket. This is my domestic policy, the ragheads are global.
Simple royalties if they use the song. But to use somebody's original recording of their song for any commercial purpose, including political campaigns, you must get permission from the publisher. Sometimes you have to pay very big bucks to get that permission. It is effectively an endorsement of a product, just as if you used somebody's image, and endorsements are often expensively compensated.
Don't be naive, how do you think recording artists are compensated. Any commercial use of copyrighted products, including recordings, must pay royalties. You can play music at your backyard barbecues, no problem. But if you play it in your business to attract customers, you owe royalties. Sometimes artists will waive royalties for charitable commercial use. Radio is more complicated, but there are fair use situations and there are commercial use situations. Sometimes the radio station (or internet/ satellite service) must pay the royalties, in which case you can be sure that they have passed down to you a share of them in your fees.
No, but ASCAP will and does regularly. It is their job to collect royalties for artists from those who use other people art for commercial profit. And they will take you to court.
Which is my point. They are already paid. Does the DJ that spins records (cd or digital) that he has already paid for, so he owns them now. The artist has been paid and now jazzy Jeff has his licensed, legally paid for copy of whatever; does he have to pay more royalties to practice his trade?
Absolutely. Paying for the media does not pay for commercial use of the product. It pays for personal use only. He is using other peoples copyrighted work for commercial profit. That is not fair use, it is commercial use. Recordings are a performance. The artists must get his cut of commercial use of his music. It's not all that much, what are you being such a cheapskate about? Musicians have to make a living just as disk jockeys, do. This arrangement has existed since the dawn of recordings. It is what makes it all work. Damn, in republican politics, taxes, quarterbacks, and now playlists you always want something for nothing.
That's the thing, you wouldn't think Joe's dive bar would get caught showing the Game of Thrones and having a Game of Thrones watch party either but somehow or another HBO seems to find out about it.
The bar typically covers it. With electronic music though most is indie so they don't have the lawyers to go after dj's and they see dj's as a promotional tool.
