[cc-community] AKM go against a live license
drew Roberts
zotz at 100jamz.com
Fri Oct 17 09:56:50 EDT 2008
On Friday 17 October 2008 07:59:14 Jamison Young wrote:
> just to add.. i was the only performer at the performance space on the
> night that AKM are asking a fee from the space. all the songs that i
> perform are songs i wrote.
>
> also: mostly the spaces i perform songs at, pay a fee to a rights
> organization. What i like about the live license is that i can get my
> guitar out and play some songs in a hostel space for example. If the rights
> organizations were to ask the hostel about a show being played on a
> particular night, the hostel is able to produce the license.
I think something that needs to be made perfectly clear is that no other music
(music that needed a license) was played at that location that night, (ever?)
live or recorded. (Is that perhaps their concern?)
>
> I did not expect the rights organizations to go against the live license,
> as i have always only performed songs i write. If i was singing other
> peoples songs and saying that i played my own songs. I would understand the
> rights organizations concern. The live license, could be a valid license
> for all artists that make their own songs. At the moment artists are often
> encouraged to perform songs that are owned by publishers, as the space pays
> the same fee for well published content as they do for self published
> content. A live license could really help artists and eventually publishers
> in Europe.
all the best,
drew
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