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mberan42:
--- Quote from: Tokuma on 05 Sep 2007, 15:22 ---The name is Oregon Trail Roasting Company.
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If you don't have at least one reference to the video game prominently displayed or featured in your coffee shop, I will hold you in high disdain.
But regardless, this place sounds pretty awesome. If I wasn't on the complete opposite side of the state, I'd visit!
Chad K.:
Tokuma-
With regard to bands, you just haven't been there long enough yet. That area is home to some great well known and lesser known bands- Ring,Cicada, Grand Ulena, Riddle of Steel, Fragile Porcelain Mice, The Glare of Day, Roma 79, Heroes of the Kingdom, LaPush, Horshack, Target Market, Bravo Company...
It's all I've got right now, and some of these may no longer exist, but there are great bands there. Also, bands out of Kansas City and Chicago frequently come to the area to play. I used to play most weekends at Three-1-Three (Now Big Daddy's?) down there, and they would get some really impressive names through there. (Matt Talbott from Hum once name dropped it on 120 Minutes as his favorite venue in the country). Keep the faith.
3Z3VH:
--- Quote from: Tokuma on 05 Sep 2007, 15:27 ---All those features are available in the software I am looking at. It's called SAMBroadcaster if you wanna take a look at it.
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That looks like a great back-end for it, I hope they allow a bit more customization of the website interface though. That way you could limit what people can do on the main kiosk a bit.
Emaline:
--- Quote from: Chad K. on 05 Sep 2007, 15:59 ---Tokuma-
With regard to bands, you just haven't been there long enough yet. That area is home to some great well known and lesser known bands- Ring,Cicada, Grand Ulena, Riddle of Steel, Fragile Porcelain Mice, The Glare of Day, Roma 79, Heroes of the Kingdom, LaPush, Horshack, Target Market, Bravo Company...
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I definitely second Target Market and La Push. Tokuma, if you want I could put together a mix cd of a bunch of local bands, and send it to you. Or we could hang out and I could give it to you then, whatever. Just pm me.
ViolentDove:
--- Quote from: Tokuma on 05 Sep 2007, 14:28 ---I am, along with my family, in the process of opening a coffee shop in Belleville Illinois. Being a fan of independent music, that is what we are going to be playing. I have two questions for the QC music community. First, if anyone is aware of the rules regarding playing this music.
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I can't speak with regards to copyright law in the US, but I'd imagine it's somewhat similar to how it works here in Australia. Anyone who wants to legally play recorded music in a public place, such as restaurants, coffee shops etc. needs to obtain a blanket license with the body representing the holders of the mechanical copyright for the recordings. Usually, you just pay an annual fee for said license, and the fees are distributed to the coypright holders.
However, it gets tricky when you're dealing with independent labels and bands, as in most cases it's small labels or the bands themselves that hold the copyright for their own work. At least in Australia, the body that deals with enforcing mechanical copyright is made up of representatives of the large recording companies (PPCA), and the distribution of copyright royalties is partly based on radio/tv play logs. This means that the money you pay to play music doesn't necessarily go to the correct band, even though that's the impression the PPCA likes to give.
So, if you're only going to be playing music off small independent labels, that aren't involved in anyway with say, Sony, for example, then I'd just go for getting in touch with the bands/labels. They'll probably just tell you to do what everyone else does, and register a license with the appropriate body, unless you can keep a log of every track you play annually and pay them the royalities individually.
However, if you're going to mix it up with anything off a decent size label, then you'd be best to seek out the appropriate licensing body. Or just ignore it all, like a lot of people seem to do, and hope the copyright owners never find out about you. But any band with a recording should be registered with the appropriate body anyway, if they ever want to recieve royalties.
I think the body you'd need to get a license from in the US is BMI. Also, the terminology seems a bit different in the US, as the "performance" rights seem to include playing a CD in public, and the mechanical rights seem to cover copying music.
Er... hope this helps. :)
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