Rebroadcasting Music

[CopyrightSolver]

Originally Posted by Brad Weber

Purely semantics, but just so it is not misunderstood, while anything you record would also be 'recorded music', what is addressed in the exemption is the playback of pre-recorded music and not the recording of music.

Well, it is a little more than semantics. There is often a lot of confusion as to whether or not this exemption covers copyrighted recordings, so I was just trying to flesh that out. In addition, I was pointing out that the exemption also extends to images.

Originally Posted by Brad Weber

What I was getting at is that the site you linked says "The PERFORMmusic church performance license allows you to play or perform over 16,000,0000 Christian and secular songs. All genres are covered, from Contemporary Christian and Gospel to Rock, Country, Children’s music and much more." However, I could not find anything specifically identifying any reference to the ASCAP, BMI and SESAC catalogs or what music is/is not covered by a PERFORMmusic license. From my personal perspective, I'd much rather be able to tell a church that with a CCS PERFORMmusic license they can play anything from any of the three major licensing catalogs than to have to tell them that they can play 16,000,000 songs but I don't know what that does or does not include. So put simply, are the full ASCAP, BMI and SESAC catalogs covered in the PERFORMmusic and WORSHIPcast licenses and is there some reason this can't be directly stated?

Yes, the full catalogs of ASCAP, BMI and SESAC are covered by the PERFORMmusic license (and the WORSHIPcast license too). I updated the web site to make that more clear. Thanks for the heads up on the imprecise verbiage!