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[nicwessely]

Do I need an ascap license to play my show with music even if I purchased the music?

[Santas Helper]

Only if you charge admission if I remember right.

[Guest wbottomley]

Do I need an ascap license to play my show with music even if I purchased the music?

Another topic that's been beaten to death. A search will reveal the final outcome.

[Orville]

Another topic that's been beaten to death. A search will reveal the final outcome.

I agree it's been beaten to death, but I just tried to find the info where "The Demented Elf" had contacted the music companies and got the answer for all of us, guess what, I COULD NOT LOCATE IT! Tried searching for it and got all kinds of results, some that had absolutely NOTHING to do with music licensing.

It's no wonder the forums get so beaten up with the same questions over and over again, that particular thread should have been made a top priority sticky thread here and then folks would see it right off. As it is, it's buried in the forums somewhere and after trying to locate it myself for over 40 minutes, got fed up and said to heck with it. And I'd wager most users won't bother spending more than a few minutes trying to locate the information BEFORE asking the same questions that have been answered many times before.

But to answer the OPs question: No you DO NOT need a license for a display open to the public as long as you ARE NOT Charging a fee to visitors coming to your display. Once you charge a fee: LICENSE REQUIRED! Donation boxes are the exception as long as they are for a valid charity, if the donation box is to help pay any of your bills, like your power use, that consititues payment to YOU and WILL REQUIRE a license for the music in your display!

Edited December 4, 2012 by Orville

[Caleb Linburg]

I believe this is what you are looking for.

[Orville]

I believe this is what you are looking for. http://forums.lighto...Song-permission

Thanks for linking to that Caleb. That's the one I spent almost an hour trying to find with the search function here so I could have posted a link to it, But I just couldn't recall what the subject title was and was going through the "music license", "license music" and every other thing I could think of to find it.

Glad there's a link to it here as that should tell the OP everything they need to know.

[Caleb Linburg]

Yeah, and now with the overflow protection it is no fun searching at all.

[nicwessely]

Thank you guys soo much. I was a bit worried, but now I know. Thank you Caleb!!

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BTW, a valid charity is a 501.c3