Thank you to you and everybody who's contributed their thoughts,
Howard
On Sep 29, 2014, at 2:32 AM, David <davidisdk@gmail.com> wrote:
Also note that you'll have to license the song in every country where you will sell the app, unless you can get a direct deal with the rights owners (which is sometimes someone different in every country). In short it is a mess.I'd recommend you pay for an original work or find songs that are not copyrighted anymore. Note that the actual interpretation/recording can be copyrighted but the song itself be out of copyright (this is the case for anything from Mozart, Beethoven, ...). In that case you have to pay someone to rerecord the song.To get an idea of the timeframe, a song is usually out of copyright 50 to 70 years after the death of its author (this depends on the country and is a rather large / safe estimate); but ask a layer...Cheers,David
On Saturday, September 27, 2014 2:46:29 AM UTC+2, howardk wrote:Is this group still active? Posts seem very far and few between.If there's anybody out there, -;) I've got a question. I've got an app coming close to completion (K -- 3 early childhoood education), and want to include a few snippets of tunes that were popular in the 1950's. i'm presuming that i'll be owing somebody a royalty per app, maybe even each time a tune is played in the app, but that's about all I know. Does anyone have information on this topic, ie, how to find the copyright holder of the pieces, what are typical licensing terms, etc etc. I'm in Canada if that's relevant to the discussion.
TIA,
Howard--
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