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Posted by slifedogg on Nov-09-2003 20:04:

Posted by AndiH on Nov-09-2003 20:43:

As long as you don't sell the tapes you can play whatever you want; this also means that you can put the tracklisting on the cover, but you should add "For promotional use only - not for sale." to both your tape and the cover.

Posted by DJ Dingel on Nov-12-2003 00:39:

I talked to a patent lawyer about the problem of not having the right to perform the tracks (gotta pay your ASCAP fees) in regards to distributing mp3s of livesets. He said that - the more DJing you do (mixing, scratching) over the vinyl, the safer you are from copyright violations because the track is clearly not being distributed in a playable form as a single. Second, he said that fair use means you may distribute limited copies of the mp3 to your friends (20-30 at most), but should not make them available for general sharing on P2P. I think that promoting yourself to club owners would be analogous to that.

In reality, we can see that you'll never get caught, as people are posting DJ mixes on this website all the time and having lots of people download them. The RIAA is only going after folks who share copies of the latest Top 40 songs and have massive bandwidth to distribute to a large audience. I wouldn't worry about yours much.

Only giving the tapes/CDs to club owners/friends and putting "Promotional Purposes Only" on the cover should cover your butt sufficiently.