[cc-community] Spanish collecting society can only collect royalties for works by its members

Gavin Baker gavin at gavinbaker.com
Thu Feb 12 11:47:44 EST 2009


Apparently they never had to prove before that the artists on whose
behalf they were collecting royalties were actually members of the
society -- i.e., if you were using CC-licensed music, you still had to
pay anyway.

IANASpanishL, so don't take my word:

http://www.publico.es/ciencias/199372/musica/libre/escapa/sgae
http://www.vialibre.org.ar/2009/02/12/sgae_manos_fuera_de_mis_bolsillos/

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