Re: OT: for our planned festival - distribution channels regarding "call for performers", legal advice regarding ancillary copyright

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

A fun way to side-step all this would be to play cover songs!

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com



On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Stefan
Tiedje<stefantiedje@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Rainer Schwarzschild schrieb:
>>
>> Jeff said:
>>>
>>> Couldn't we have some kind of Creative Commons license? Like Ninjam
>>> perfomances.
>>
>> The short answer is "no".
>>
>> The slightly longer one:
>
> I might have found a way to get around for these kind of collaborations 
>even
> with a Gema contract:
>
> If the work isn't done by a single composer/performer, but is a
> collaborative work, its simply impossible for the performing rights
> organization to put all their restrictions on to it, the other owner of 
>the
> right would have to agree, and they can't restrict her in anyway to use 
>her
> own rights...
> I would have to check on this, but if one of the collaborators of a 
>Ninjam
> session isn't a member of ***(Gema, Acap, STIM, Sacem or whatever which 
>all
> have contracts under each other to protect their members in other
> countries), and wants to distribute as cc-nc, it might be possible. But
> anyway, there won't be a possibility to have each performance under the 
>same
> license, it depends on the personal contracts of the musicians 
>involved...
>
> Stefan