The last question about PD music got me thinking. I found this website. It
has lots of public domain songs listed from a link and the info is good.
http://www.pdinfo.com/
However, early on, it states that even though the song is in the public
domain, a recording of it will not be. So, that makes it more complicated.
To use the song, according to this, you would have to record your own
version -- not too practical. It is the song in the PD, not the artist doing
it. I do not know where the fellow I worked for got the recordings for the
theater, but it was really unfamiliar and foreign.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] ASCAP follows RIAA down the road guaranteed not to
make friends
Frank Strauss wrote:
On 8/1/07, Steven Smith, King of the House, Inc.
<kingofthehouse@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Again, 20 years ago, I worked with
a large theater chain. They were told they had to pay ASCAP fees for
the
music before and after the show. The owner of the huge Washington
chain,
instead, managed to locate a bunch of music that was in the public
domain.
He put that in all theaters. It was not very current, but he got around
paying out money for intermission music.
How much public domain music is there?
In the US, any song published before 1924.
dl