Dance Studios and Copyright Issues

[Walter Biscardi]

Legally they need to pay royalties to ASCAP or BMI. Whether they do or not is another story.

My brother in law owns a dance studio and they pay some sort of a blanket license fee to a company. I can ask him more about it.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Tim Mccleary]

Walter, thank you for the reply. I would appreciate it if you could find out more from your brother about the license fee and who that is paid to.
BTW… love your quote.

[Gary Chvatal]

Sure they can pay a public performance license directly to ASCAP & BMI which would allow them to use music in rehearsals and performances. Those fees are based on the size of the buisness (usually figured by the number of locations and number of emplyees…or the number of performances and size of the venues.) I used to manage those licenses for my company when I worked in a corporate environment.

Copying and selling CD’s would not be allowed unless that are paying mechanical royalties…but I’d bet those are too expensive for most dance studios. I’m sure many music instuctors (think of all the guitar teachers in back rooms of music stores across the country) turn a blind eye to the law and do it anyway.