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Thread ID: 60253	2005-07-27 02:11:00	online music store query	lance4k (4644)	PC World Chat

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375783	2005-07-27 02:11:00	how do online music stores get their music online? is there a legal way to rip cd's onto ur hard drive and put them for sale online?	lance4k (4644)
375784	2005-07-27 02:17:00	Well there maybe a legal way to rip the cds . BUT since they're not your songs, you may or would get sued for selling music, that you don't own . If you try and sell MP3's you rip, for profit .	Speedy Gonzales (78)
375785	2005-07-27 03:48:00	That's quite an ambitious question Lance. Suggest you try contact one of the bigger music labels, or possibly a radio station might be able to help	Greg (193)
375786	2005-07-27 06:28:00	they ask permission from the record companies.	Prescott (11)
375787	2005-07-27 19:05:00	Actually, they pay for the license to broadcast them . It's called (in the US) BMI or ASCAP . Every time a song is played longer than a set number of seconds (there's a reason to use a short sound bite for stations . . . they call them a "bumper"), the station or provider has to pay for that use in the general licensing of the station . If you own a restaurant and have a radio playing in the backgroud so that the patrons can hear it, you are violating the BMI/ASCAP license agreement . You can be fined by the music police . The fees are then sent to various people who divide and send the monies further down the food chain . The artists get residuals from the playing of music after the sales of the albums or cuts are considered . Some artist never get residuals at all . That was mostly in the younger days of licensing and artists' rights groups got into the act, for a fee I might add . These licenses are assignable . . for instance, Michael Jackson has the rights to much of the Beatle's music and gets the residuals from their music any time it gets air time . If a song gets used in a movie track, it too generates revenues for all involved . Now, if you pay the the artists thru whatever bureau NZ uses, I am sure you can then legally buy, copy, disburse the music any way you see fit . . for a reciprocal fee . The only exception to payment of fees is if the actual music and the artist's rendition has fallen into public domain . Very few salable recordings are available . . . . they just aren't very popular . Consider: "Way down Upon The Swanee River" by Stephan Foster, an olde . . very olde American standard . It has no fees to pay or residuals to consider or artist to grease . . . . . . . all the primary parties are long dead . I doubt if you can give a copy of it away however . A VERY interesting sidebar here: ILLEGAL DOWNLOADERS BUY MORE MUSIC . ( . bbc . co . uk/1/hi/technology/4718249 . stm" target="_blank">news . bbc . co . uk)	SurferJoe46 (51)
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