Rights and Licenses
“Busted! The Top 10 Myths of Music Copyright”
“Breezing Through The Winds of Licensing-How Not To Get Blown Away!”
A series of memorandums we have prepared over the years on basic concepts of copyrights and licenses
The websites of ASCAP and BMI, the two most popular performance rights organizations. This is where you go if you want to obtain a license to perform music (but not dramatically, that’s something else.) You can also search their databases to find the names of the specific composers and publishers whose works they license.
An overview of copyrights and licensing issues for composer and performers, which we an wrote for the Spring 2012 edition of CMA Matters, a publication of Chamber Music America.
The website of the U.S. Copyright Office where you can get information on how to register a copyright as well as search their database to find out the owners of copyrighted materials.
The Harry Fox Agency provides mechanical licenses for making audio recordings. This is where you go if you want the right to record music (audio-only). You can search their database to find the names of the specific composers and publishers whose works they license.