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Thread ID: 63021	2005-10-27 00:18:00	ARPA	sarel (2490)	PC World Chat

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399577	2005-10-27 00:18:00	Our local hospital plays music in its' foyers and lifts to soooooth the stressed visitor. The've recently been told that they need to pay ARPA fees because they broadcast to the public and thus switched to Sky Music, which is quite expensive. Do hospitals need to pay htis fee? Where would one find out - Googling did not show up anything and I've been given the job of sorting this sarel	sarel (2490)
399578	2005-10-27 01:14:00	Hospitals used to be exempted from the radio licence. (Remember that?) But that was the gobblement, when the hospitals were all part of the public services. (Remember that? :() Performing rights fees are private enterprise ... and part of the market economy. :D	Graham L (2)
399579	2005-10-27 02:09:00	Just the opportunity to get people interested in old-time music :) "Once the composer of a musical work has been dead for a period of 50 years then the work is in the public domain and can be used freely by anyone. APRA still therefore represent composers such as Vaughn Williams and Stravinsky" www.apra.co.nz So music by composers who died before 1935 can be played in Australasia, it is in the Public Domain. In the US it is worse, copyright goes back something like 75 years now, their law was ammended a few years ago, and so music that was PD came back under copyright.	Terry Porritt (14)
399580	2005-10-27 02:50:00	Thanks for the link Terry sarel	sarel (2490)
399581	2005-10-27 03:31:00	My arithmetic is lousy 2005-50 = 1955, not 1935, so in fact there is a whole heap of good music that is in Public Domain here, George Gershwin (died 1937), Jelly Roll Morton (died 1941) and so on.	Terry Porritt (14)
399582	2005-10-27 04:55:00	The extension to the US copyright term can properly be called "Mickey Mouse" lawmaking. It was done because MM was reaching the 50 year mark, and Disney Corporation had enough clout to make it happen.	Graham L (2)
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