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About usLegal policyBEWARE - YOU COULD BE HELPING YOUR DJ TO BREAK THE LAW!It is very important to ask if the DJ has a ProDub licence if using a computer to play music at your party because making copies of music is against the law unless you have the appropriate licences from all the relevant copyright owners. Why do they need an extra licence if they have obtained the tracks lawfully?When you purchase a vinyl record, tape or CD you are only allowed to use that record for domestic purposes. You do not acquire any rights to copy that record, or to play that record in public. So if you want to copy or transfer a sound recording on a record onto your computer, you must obtain the permission of the copyright owner of that sound recording. The position in respect of lawful downloads is very similar, save that you are given a limited right to keep a copy of the downloaded sound recording for your domestic listening. If you want to keep that copy for other purposes, then the law requires you to obtain the permission of the copyright owner. Continue... |
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