Most bars and restaurants that play music for their patrons have
blanket licenses for those public performances of copyrighted music.
The licenses come from the major collective societies and
collective rights organizations, including ASCAP, BMI, and then even SeSac, which
is sound exchange licenses for Internet performances, on behalf of performers.
Which, as you'll recall is the only type of performance rights
that performers hold in recorded music.
So each license does permit public performances
of the music that's in that particular agency's catalog.
So what that means is different publishers work through different agencies, and
it's often necessary to get a license from all three performance rights groups
to cover the music that you might have playing in the bar.
>> These performance rights agencies also license
individual performances of specific pieces of music but their major business
is the kind of blanket license that you were talking about that they provide for
businesses of all sorts and for our purposes very often.
Also for college campuses.
Colleges and universities buy these licenses so that their faculty,
students, anybody can perform various kinds of music on the campus.
Most campus licenses permit a variety of live performances of the music that's in
their repertoire or catalogue.
That is, the music that publishers have made the specific agency
their legal representative for.
This allows performances, as I said,
by student bands, visiting musicians, faculty groups.
These licenses allow for the use of recorded music
at public performances such as sporting events, parties, graduations.
And they even sometimes cover the music on hold that you will find on your
telephone system.
>> [LAUGH] >> Performances may also be broadcast
under certain circumstances when you hold these licenses,
including the over university owned cable TV stations, radio stations, or
a university owned internet site.
These facilities must, as I just said, be entirely controlled by the institution,
at least according to most of the terms of these licenses.
For example, the performance license would not allow recording a performance of
the school's orchestra, and posting it to YouTube.
But it might allow posting it to a university-controlled website,
which obviously YouTube is not.