Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]

Re:Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonli... by lightlyused on Saturday May 01, 2021 @09:41AM (#27006241)

I went digging. APRA = Australasian Performing Right Association Limited ECAD = Escritório Central de Arrecadação e Distribuição SOCAN = Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada VCPMC = Vietnam Center for Protection of Music Copyright

CS stands for collections society. In another age CS would stand for the Mafia.

All but ECAD were found from here: https://www.cisac.org/

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Re:Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonli... by snickms on Saturday May 01, 2021 @11:13AM (#27006938)

These collection societies are actually the opposite of the mafia.

They collect royalties on behalf of the composers. If the composer has a publisher, the royalties are forwarded there instead (so the publisher can take their contractual cut).

They are the only way to protect your work if you are unsigned (think struggling artists).

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Re:Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonli... by pbhjpbhj on Saturday May 01, 2021 @01:18PM (#27007950)

AIUI there collection societies are collectives of publishers and look out for the people who own the publishing companies, they're not making sure the publishing companies act fairly and justly, they're making sure they sue people who are too small to defend themselves in order to boost the collections in order to support the publishing company owners.

Maybe I'm wrong ... counter evidence welcomed.

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