Re: Rights to music at sports events

From: Laura N. Gasaway <unclng[_at_]EMAIL.UNC.EDU>
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 08:48:59 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

On Tue, 29 Apr 1997 Bill Thayer <petworth[_at_]suba.com> wrote:
>
> Speaking from my experience as a figure skater, we use uncleared music
> all the time, at least up to Sectionals. I don't know about National
> championship level. I have never heard of anyone (other than me)
> either thinking of the copyright question, nor of any copyright owner
> coming to a skater etc.
>
> Doesn't mean it's right, of course.
>
> Interestingly, the skating "program" is
>
> (a) extremely reliant on the music, to the point that when a tape
> breaks, the skater will usually stop (with a signal exception at a
> World Championship, where it happened to the team that won -- a
> memorable skate)
>
> (b) definitely a derivative work. BTW, it is considered very bad form,
> but not illegal, among skaters to crib someone else's music or program;
> and people have twice asked me if they could use a move I invented. (I
> said yes.)

     I wonder if the ice skating arenas have an ASCAP and BMI license. They well might.

Lolly

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