Performance Rights

To play a recording or to show an audiovisual work in public may require a special license from the copyright owner. Those licenses can be negotiated directly; but, in many cases, performance rights organizations (e.g., ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, SoundExchange) license performances of their artists’ work. There are some detailed exceptions from this license requirement for organizations like restaurants and bars, however.

Contact Arnold & Knobloch if you have performance or display rights issues.