Leaving the letter of the law and getting to
the reality of it - I can certainly agree with that
assessment.
SR
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From: EXT-Schurr, Larry ASent: Monday, August 15, 2005 4:39 PMSubject: RE: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] RE: 80's Anyone?Funny thing about the Law: whenever the gavel comes down, one side loses. Lawyers, by definition, work on a 50% failure rate. No other profession gets away with that. Yet they're treated like "experts"... go figure.That said, "leaves the house" is not a standard of challenge. Nor is "played publicly".For that matter "previously recorded" and even "song" is wide open for interpretations and total exemptions of unenforcibility.Once it's been on the radio, the real legal changes start... dirty little secret.L.
Doesnt matter whether you are trading them, giving them away or selling them - if it is a previously recorded/published song the law requires that it has to be licensed prior to any of those acts. If you create a sequence of some previously published song in your home, which is what you are doing, and it goes no further than that, then that is no problem and no licenses are required. Once it leaves the house and is played publicly or you distribute it then everything changes.