Tue, Sep 07, 2004
Music Issues In The Air At ICAS
From ICAS...
For the 2005 air show
season, the United States Navy and United States Air Force will
require that any show hosting a military jet team or single-ship
demonstration team obtain licenses from three different music
licensing organizations to play pre-recorded music over the air
show public address systems at air shows in the United
States.
After several months of discussion, ICAS has negotiated
comparatively inexpensive fees for ICAS members from all three
organizations: ASCAP, BMI and SESAC. BMI and ASCAP have both set
their fees at $150 per day. SESAC has set their fees at $60 per
show when the show is one or two days long and a sliding scale for
shows longer than two days. In all cases, the fees do not include
practice days. So, for a typical weekend air show, the total fees
to all three organization will be $660: $300 to ASCAP for a two-day
license, $300 to BMI for a two-day license and $60 to SESAC for the
two-day show.
The music licenses issued by the three organizations will allow
the air show to play any pre-recorded music at any point during the
air show, including pre- or post-show "walking around" music, music
played by a civilian performer to accompany his/her performance,
and music played by any of the jet teams or military single ship
demonstration teams.
These licenses are not
optional and air shows that have played pre-recorded, copyrighted
music over their public address systems without these licenses in
the past have been in violation of US copyright laws.
ICAS took the lead in negotiating a special rate for ICAS members
when it became clear that virtually all shows would be forced to
obtain the licenses in order to host a military jet team or single
ship demo. Some members were paying as much as seven times the
negotiated rate before ICAS became involved.
"There really is no question that air shows are obligated to obtain
these licenses and there never has been," said ICAS President John
Cudahy. "The challenge for our industry was negotiating the best
possible rate once it became clear that most members would be
obtaining licenses beginning in 2005 and we think we've done that.
For some shows, these ICAS rates represent a 70 or 80 percent
savings on what they would have otherwise paid."
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