[HANASHIR:9545] Re: Permission to record Craig Taubman song

[Adrian Durlester <adrian...>]

A little copyright law review, since the opportunity presented itself:

"Under the United States Copyright Act, the right to use copyrighted, 
non-dramatic musical works in the making of phonorecords for distribution to 
the public for private use is the exclusive right of the copyright owner. 
However, the Act provides that once a copyright owner has recorded and 
distributed such a work to the U.S. public or permitted another to do so, a 
compulsory mechanical license is available to anyone else who wants to record 
and distribute the work in the U.S. upon the payment of license fees at the 
statutory "compulsory" rate as set forth in Section 115 of the Act. 

The current royalty rate as of January 1, 2000 is 7.55 cents per use for 
compositions that are 5 minutes or less; for songs over 5 minutes, the rate is 
1.45 cents per minute or fraction thereof of playing time, whichever is 
greater. Please see the Statutory Royalty Rates for additional information. It 
should be noted that a mechanical license does not include the right to 
reproduce an already existing sound recording. That is a separate right, which 
must be procured from the copyright owner of such sound recording."

In other words, once the song has been recorded and released, the copyright 
holder is required to issue you a compulsory mechanical license to record the 
song yourself.

That being said, it is ALWAYS appropriate to contact the composer and ask 
permission. Just remember-the artiston the recording may not be the copyright 
holder.

Adrian


Adrian A. Durlester
adrian (at) durlester(dot)com
Dir of Ed, Beth El Hebrew Congregation, Alexandria, VA
List Owner, Hanashir





-----Original Message-----
From:    JRSMarsh1 (at) aol(dot)com
Sent:    Tue, 31 Jul 2001 07:27:32 EDT
To:      hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
Subject: [HANASHIR:9541] Permission to record Craig Taubman song


Hi there,
Can anybody tell me how to get in touch with Craig Taubman? I'd like to get 
his permission to record one of his songs.
Thanks,
Jinny Marsh



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