Posted by Joe S. on March 11, 2000 at 01:43:06:
In Reply to: Performance Royalties posted by doubler on March 10, 2000 at 13:05:55:
Different pieces of music fall under different rules. Some pieces have reservations of rights for performance in public for profit.
Usually, when performance royalties are due, there is a complex classification system that determines how much is to be collected. Since this rate can often be "negotiated" with the publisher over the telephone, it is all a bunch of PHoo anyway, I.M.O.
Several years ago after I played the John Williams, a local orchestra finally sent a rather "blunt" note to the leasor of the rental music asking one last time for the security deposit to be refunded, since the sheet music had been returned. The sheet music rental agency FINALLY returned the security deposit...
...and in the same envelope was a bill to the orchestra for performance royalties.
(In other words, the rental agency wasn't going to bother to exercise their right to collect performance royalties, but since someone annoyed them, they decided to go ahead and do so.)