<div dir="ltr"><div><div>This is one of the reasons I gave up doing Event Videography part time. Copyright laws are so ridiculously convoluted and cumbersome. I like Australia's approach of paying a singe yearly fee for licensing of various things, even Event Videography ($300/yr and can make up to 50 copies of the videos, more for additional costs). But, they have a single publishing house for the country so they're not fighting between themselves.<br><br></div>I wonder, though, how does buying accompaniment tracks for live performances figure in? I was always under the impression that the performer paying upwards of $20 per song for "live performance permission" (as stated on the tape or CD case itself) was all that was needed. Is there additional licensing required for venues? <br><br>It's a little different in my mainly church world (I'm the TD/systems tech at my church) where we pay an annual fee for display of lyrics and live performance of catalog songs, to include permission to record and sell audio and video copies (15% of attendance) for a max-specified price, and we also pay an additional fee for permission to livestream the service (none of these licensing fees include permission to record/stream pre-recorded music, though, only live performed).<br><br></div>Jeff<br><div><div><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span><div><div dir="ltr">-------------------------------------<br>Jeff Klein, DMC- E<br>Audio Visual Integration Manager<br>Dept of Defense<br>Washington D.C. District<br><br> "Clothe
yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for God
opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." 1 Peter 5:5</div></div></span></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div></div></div></div>