Thread: Is it legal?
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Old November 16th, 2006, 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by orerockon View Post
That's some pretty terrible advice. If no one makes a profit from it, you certainly can. If you do profit, or if the establishment profits (e.g. you are charging the establishment for your shows, you accept tips, they have a cover charge for the audience) the answer is absolutely not, according to any and all reasonable interpretations of either US Copyright Law or the Digital Millineum Act.
Then I guess what you are saying then is every DJ is operating illegally!!
You are forgetting the fact that those establishments where DJ's and KJ's play their music are paying license fees to ASCAP, etc for that very right, so I guess the advice isn't so terrible after all.
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