I create only content i make for live events (I plan to join ASCAP). I wondered if i could license my live gig under a creative commons attribution license. I have contacted AKM (rights organization is Austria) and asked them about this possibility. Their response was:
AKM say: For the moment I can only give you general information about the licensing of public performances by AKM: (think AKM is the same as any other rights organization in Europe.)
If an organizer maintaines that all music titles that will be performed (live or by “mechanical†means, like for instance CD, MP3, DVD, etc.) are written by composers and lyricists that are not a member of AKM or sister society of AKM (e.g. OSA, GEMA, etc.) the organizer has to send a music program (music title list incl. names of the authors/arrangers) to AKM. AKM then checks the list. If none of the right owners of the performed titles (composer, lyricist, arranger, music publisher, etc.) is a member of AKM or a foreign sister society AKM does not ask for payment of an AKM-fee. Moreover there has to be said that AKM also collects the fees for other domestic rights organizations, like for instance the copyright society for authors of literature (Literar Mechana). So if a program only or also contains works of authors of literature being a member of Literar Mechana or a foreign sister society of Literar Mechana a licence fee has to be paid to AKM.
If an organizer would maintain that all titles of the programm performed are under a creative commons license the procedure of checking would be the same as said above.
The organizer of the event would be the performing artist in the instance of the CC license?
Can a member of ASCAP license their music under a creative commons license to live venues in Europe free?
