When I buy a Mozart or Beethoven album, to whom do the royalties go?
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Music such as Mozart is considered to be in the public domain, and no one is given royalties, unless there is a specific arrangement that is copywritten.  Since every piece of orchestral music is changed slightly by the arranger for the symphony who performs it, that part of the performance can be registered so that arranger can get royalties.\nSo anyone can play Mozart for free, but if you use the London Philharmonics version of Mozart in your commercial, then you have to pay.  Make sense?
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Its probably best that you contact one of the collection societies such as BMI/Ascap whom should be able to advise you whether its worth it. If the arrangers are getting the other 50% of writers royalties, then I'm not so sure that there is a need to pay them. Because as you're relying on receiving payment that way, then maybe they should?! But you've also got to take in to account that studio time is being paid for, and this in itself is probably worth the fee that you are paying out.
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Here's your answer. YOU WONT. They are copyrighted and the publishers would fine any website into oblivion if they even tried to post it ...AND they could expect some jail time to boot. All you will find is spammy pseudo search sites that have free sheet music in the title or URL but they LIE. All they want you to do is click on a link or two because that's how they make their money... or they are an affiliate with a site that sells sheet music. Total Garbage if you ask me.\n\nHere's an article that explains it better\n\nhttp://www.stagepass.com/free/sheet/musi...\n\nTo buy their music (it's the only way) these sites have all that has been released in print.\n\nMail Order\n\nhttp://www.stagepass.com/cgi-bin/search/allproduct/searchdatabase.pl?m=and&type=general&kwrds=aladdin\n\nDownloads\n\nhttp://www.sheetmusicscore.com/cgi-bin/search/allproduct/downloadsearch.pl?m=and&type=general&kwrds=aladdin
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Dont know if youre US or OK but heres how it works in Britain.  \n\nWhoever Authors a song/logo etc owns the copywright and anyone wishing to use this must obtain permission. The problems comes in proving that you are the author of an original piece\n\nThe simplest way to do this is to send a copy of the recording/ logo etc to yourself getting a clearly dated postmark on it. Ideally sending it in some way that you have to sign for. DO NOT OPEN IT. \n\nHand the unopened Package to a Solictor or Deposit it with your bank, keeping hold of a dated receipt.\n\nIn the case of a future copyright dispute, this package can be opened in court and used as proof that you owned this property on the date deposited. \n\nThis is standard practice in UK you'll have to check out any legal differences if your from the States\n\nHope this is some use anyway.\nHappy recording
632698
You shouldn't use Limewire, it's illegal. Bill Gates loses $200 Billion to pirators a year and you are one of them. Buy the songs.
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publisher's secure rights by buying them from the library of Congress. you can copywright your own work or purchase the rights to existing work. royalties are a shared percentage of the net residuals, usually referring to the money an artist receives after album sales. of course in this day and age, the nature of these beasts is much more complicated and the monopoly that the major label record companies have over artists is crippling the music industry. for further reading and info, i bought a book called "all you ever need to know about the music business" although im not sure of the author. good luck
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check places like e-bay, barnes and noble, or localy owned music stores for info. Although the local music stores may be able to give you the best info but barnes and nobles website may give you the quickest answer.
587449
Its not a subscription -- you buy music at, right now, 99 cents a song, sometimes discounted if you buy the whole album.  You only pay for the music you buy, and you keep it without paying a continuing subscription fee.
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This is typically called licensing. Since the Yahoo! TOS has a strict policy against posting commercial sites, I'm not able to provide links. However, just do an online search for "music licensing."\n\nI posted a couple sites that will help you with this too.\n\nHope that helps!
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iTunes, Napster, or Music Match.  All fast reliable and legal.  All music is at some level copy written material.  The band saying it is free doesn't make it so.  They have to jump thru a lot of hoops to give up all their rights so always take care getting music "for free".
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In the UK (maybe the same in other countries?) the company who plays the music has to have a public entertainment license, so it does not violate the copyright laws, as a percentage of the licence fee goes to royalties for songwriters/artists etc.
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Yes!!! Go by this rule: If you are taking money away from companies that have rights to sell music, then it is illegal. If you were copying it for another one of your computers or your IPOD, then it's legal. You can't sell it to someone else.
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Legally that is most likely an impossibility...some royalties must be passed to the bands. However you can usually listen to individual songs for free on bands websites. Also some of the pay sites for this are fairly cheap if you pay annually.
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Chances are that it'll be illegal if you aqquire the music for free. Don't try it unless you know the artist has allowed the song to be distributed for free over the internet, otherwise you could face legal charges.
310136
Go to Tower Records or Rasputin music and ask if they have a list or a magazine on the going rates of records. Unfortunately nowadays unless they are in perfect (I'm talking never been played never been touched) condition, you'll probably only get a couple hundred out of them...
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ascap look it up someone can fin your song play and you'd get royalties.
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You should consult an entertainment lawyer that specializes in music industry.\n\nAlso as a side note.. Do you really want to compete with iTunes?