music composers?

[Spinners' Wacky World of Tops]

If a regular joe blow needs 7 min. of music to go with a silent show, how is the composer payed?

[Steven Ragatz]

You can get rights to off the shelf music fairly easily for performance purposes. Places like:

http://www.sounddogs.com/start.asp

will do a "buy-out" license rights to music for a very reasonable amount. Now, whether or not they have anything that you like is something else. But, there are lots of outfits like this one on the net.

Steven Ragatz

[le pire]

It also depends WHERE you perform. I work in clubs / cabarets that have DJ's and cover bands. The venu has payed the ASCAP fees so I am free to use the music of ASCAP artists.

étienne

[jugglermatt1]

Am I way off the mark by thinking that after a certain age music loses its copywrite ?
Would 50s Mambo still be in copywrite ?
I also use music by "the Garbanzo Negra" , a really up for it mad circusy Galizian punkish Ska band, and as I know th bagpipe player I use it for Free/good feeling