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Copyright doesn't cover live performances, this would be ASCAP licensing or something similar though it seems if he's "playing his own music" then none of the a
by wavefunction 6y ago
Copyright doesn't cover live performances, this would be ASCAP licensing or something similar though it seems if he's "playing his own music" then none of the above should apply.
- shawnz 6y agoCopyright law does cover live performances. ASCAP is an agency which enforces copyright on live performances.
- montjoy 6y agoJust so people aren’t misled - ASCAP is a not-for-profit, it isn’t a government agency. I think a more accurate word for it is “cabal” since most people don’t know much about them and that they often work against (IMO) the public interest.
- wavefunction 6y agoI meant that someone can't assert copyright over your live performance of your own compositions as it occurs. Copyright can be asserted over a recording of course. Someone might try to assert copyright over portions of the music I suppose. In this context though there's no way for copyright to be valid unless he's assigned the copyright to someone else which doesn't seem to be the case barring any further information.
- shawnz 6y ago> I meant that someone can't assert copyright over your live performance of your own compositions as it occurs. They can, that is how ASCAP functions. > In this context though there's no way for copyright to be valid unless he's assigned the copyright to someone else which doesn't seem to be the case The copyright for their music is held by Universal