Re: A Sound Discussion

["Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Music Licensing per the National Restaurant Association
>
> http://www.restaurant.org/Manage-My-Restaurant/Operations/Regulatory-back-office/11-questions-about-music-licensing
>
> I was going to list for various services, but this is a pretty good
> summary.
>
> The only way around paying fees other than the limited amount listed in
> that is to buy a large library of Royalty free music or music published in
> the Public Domain and use a music player.  While those items may be free
> to use you better have your paper work in order and be prepared to back it
> up if you want to avoid an AZCAP or BMI lawsuit.
>
> Even though there is a pretty big body of royalty free music out there its
> not available from ANY commnon sources, and you will most likely have to
> buy copies from companies who specialize in the stuff.
>
> Here are comments on the subject of MOH from a company that sells MOH
> service.
>
> http://easyonhold.com/knowledgebase/radioonhold.pdf
>
> Since they are in the business they may overstate the position, but it
> does seem to indicate you are correct about radio on hold.  I had believed
> radio on hold was allowed.  I didn't realize it was considered a
> rebroadcast.
>
> Its neither here nor there for me as I always try to talk my customers
> into a message on hold system for their phone systems.  Some message on
> hold machines even include a small amount of royalty free music, but if
> somebody is hearing the music I think you are wasting valuable one on one
> advertising and conditioning time.  You already have somebody who is your
> customer or is interested in becoming your customer captive and waiting on
> you.  Why not tell them a little more about yourself while they wait.
> "Oh, Les can run netowrk cable for me too?  Cool.  I'll have to ask him
> about that."
>
> Oh, and here is BMI on the topic of Music On Hold
>
> http://www.bmi.com/licensing/entry/music_on_hold
>
> And then of course there is the legnadary Muzak who made thir big punch
> into the background music industry by re-recording and butchering songs
> enough to no longer be covered under the original copyright.  Muzak was
> the original remixer.


I would like to add that I just did a search and found there is a lot more
music published in the public domain these days by new artists than there
used to be.