[Tango-L] The Australian context for copyright in Original Tango Music

[Trini y Sean (PATangoS)]

Interesting.  So does this mean that if a music student does a recital of Libertango in order to graduate, he must have a license to perform it (which I would guess would be handled by the school)?

Would "public performance" include anything outside of the home, regardless of whether money is requested to hear the performance?  Does that mean that all of those people on Youtube that record themselves playing someone else's work or make tribute videos could get hit with fines?

Trini de Pittsburgh



> In other words, while you may be playing a Beethoven
> composition (in which 
> copyright has expired), the CD/cassette you are playing may
> be, for example, 
> by the Australian Symphony Orchestra, recorded in 1998. As
> the particular 
> recording by the orchestra is only 11 years old, copyright
> exists in the 
> protected sound recording and a licence to publicly perform
> it is required.
>