![]() My name is PERSON and I’m your BMI territory representative.Įvery effort has been made to resolve your BMI license amicably, but without success. You may have already received a nice letter threatening death and destruction from one or more PRO(s) for not having their yearly license. These PROs protect the rights of the artists by selling and enforcing licensing of music in establishments like your restaurant. Musicians can only sign up with one PRO – the three main ones are American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ( ASCAP), Broadcast Music, Inc. PROs exist to protect all that IP and ensure that the artists get paid for its use. Musicians, composers, and songwriters create music and own the intellectual property thereof. Option 1: obtain a commercial license from one – or multiple – Performing Rights Organizations (PROs) and play music that you legally own (CDs, vinyl records, digital downloads, etc.) If you want to play music in your restaurant, you have three options. They are for personal use only and do not include a “performance” license, therefore playing them in a commercial setting violates copyright law.ĭoes that mean we all have to eat and drink in silence? Streaming services like Spotify, Apple music, Google Play, and Pandora are designed for consumer use and are not fully licensed for commercial purposes. You can rock out in your car or with your air pods but when you start playing this music for the public, you are now entering the realm of “performance” (air guitar optional). While you may own the physical media or pay for the music service, the rights that come with this payment are non-commercial. ![]() Negative Ghost rider, the pattern is full. Well what about playing vinyl records or CDs that I own? I paid for them. You probably have your own Spotify or Apple Music account and can Bluetooth or plug into your restaurant’s speaker system, right? That means Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music, YouTube, your iTunes library on shuffle, vinyl records, CDs, 8-tracks, cassettes, a collage of cell phone videos from that summer you followed Widespread Panic on tour. Let’s start with playing pre-recorded music. This means there are two common types of performances you’ll need to consider here: playing pre-recorded music and hosting live music. In layman’s terms: a performance is playing music in a public setting (i.e. Now before you get up on a table with that microphone…Īccording to the US Copyright Act, “to “perform” a work means to recite, render, play, dance, or act it, either directly or by means of any device or process or, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to show its images in any sequence or to make the sounds accompanying it audible.”
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