Re: original compositions

[Alex J. Lubet <lubet001...>]

Do you mean broadcast them?  Any broadcaster should have licenses with the 
appropriate performing rights organizations: ASCAP, BMI, SESAC.  These groups 
all have
international agreements as well, though not for those countries whose approach 
to copyright is, to be polite, not much like ours.  If your composers and 
lyricists don't
license their works with any of the above, they should do so asap.  I 
personally belong to ASCAP but wouldn't endorse one over the others.  They all 
serve their writers,
but the best choice is pretty idiosyncratic to precisely the sort of work one 
does, imho.



klezmer (at) yiddishmusic(dot)com wrote:

> Dear Listers,
>
> Three people on our upcoming CD have written original compositions. What does 
> one do to ensure that people who want to play one of these contact the author 
> beforehand?
>
> I'm sure there is a protocol , I just don't know what it is.
>
> Thanks for your guidance,
>
> Dena Ressler

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