COPYRIGHT LAWS
AN AUSTRALIAN DEMAND.
(From Our Own Correiponduit.)
SYDNEY, 9th September.
Municipal councils have received a rude awakening in the form ox a demand that, as the conductors of public halls, they are under a liability to the owners of copyright music which mjght be played or - sung 'in those buildings. It appears that unless they pay a fee and obtain a license they are open to legal proceedings if the copyright law is not observed. TJntil recently councils, more used to making demands than having demands made upon them, thought the copyright law was a matter about which they need not worry. It shatters another popular fallacy, that a person who buys a piece of music is entitled to sing or play it at a concert or other public performance without any claim upon him by the composer. The matter affects not only councils and private persons who own or conduct public halls, but schools of art . and other bodies as well.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1926, Page 7
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164COPYRIGHT LAWS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1926, Page 7
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