May 3, 2011

Ins and Outs of Music Licensing: Part One

This will require a follow-up.  A long, detailed follow-up.  But, for now, I just have a few words to share:  If you have any questions about how music licenses work and whether or not you need one for your upcoming dance performance, do not rely on advice from an online forum.  I spent my lunch time perusing through Bhuz and was shocked by all the well-meaning but thoroughly wrong advice.

If you are concerned enough to ask, you would never just grab a random person off the street and then follow their advice.  Same goes for an online forum.  Ask someone who would actually know.  Ask the gig coordinator, ask BMI or ASCAP, ask an attorney, but don't throw it out there into the vast reaches of the internet.

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