The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #166031   Message #4121136
Posted By: GUEST
27-Sep-21 - 08:29 PM
Thread Name: Making folk club recordings available
Subject: RE: Making folk club recordings available
Whilst you may try and take no responsibility - some recordings will contain copyright songs.   These songs may be owned by publishers and copyright collection societies. Fine if its outright trad. stuff. but the original performers may not hold the rights to songs even if they gave you permission to put them on youtube, When you sign a rights collection agreement, it gives the organisation the rights to license the work.   I note on one outright bootleg recording you put on youtube of Albert Lee, that an auto recognition software match was made on a couple of songs. It really is a step too far to start distributing copyright material without considering that you have to check each individual song's status. Make that material available on some kind of external site, and someone else is likely to take even free material and sell it, ripping off songwriters, artists, publishers, and rights organisations.