Ralf I think you are right :/
GEMA simply is a beast. Been organising concerts/band contests and parties some years ago at school or now and then with a band. It simply is awful from beginning to end, or just think of recording a CD with cover songs. Forget it!Robin
2013/1/19 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I'm not a lawyer. If I translated your mail correctly and as far as I know you're right.
There's another issue. I want to make Internet radio with a friend and I said that we run into an issue, the GEMA. He insists on, that if other friends of him, who are members of the GEMA, allow us to play their music for free, we won't get trouble with the GEMA, but IMO he's mistaken. It doesn't matter if e.g. Wino allows him to play Saint Vitus songs, if he should be member of the GEMA. I asked the friend to talk with him and others, if they are GEMA members. It's much more problematic, if we want to play music from people none of us does know, e.g. MC5, Radio Birdman. If there's a sign of the GEMA on the recordings, just a letter of some band member or successor with a few words, that we are allowed to play their music for free, AFAIK isn't legally valid. If they should have a contract with the GEMA, the GEMA gets money, if the artists get money ;). We are from the generation DIY, when bands printed on their vinyl that you should steal it, if the record does cost more than the price the band does recommend. You might know old Crass records. He's confusing the policy of European Punk Rock of the 80s, with people also from our age who play Doom and other music today, but are members of the GEMA. I don't have that much friends from the music business, the friend has got a lot of friends. Friendship doesn't make contracts null and void. I don't know who is member of the GEMA and who isn't, but I'm sure a lot of the music we want to play is from GEMA members and most of those members aren't aware about the contracts they signed.
If I should be mistaken, it would be nice, then there might be a new Internet radio available next week ;), but I guess I'm right.
Regards,
Ralf
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