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People might be downvoting this because of it's tone, but it's correct. If you're putting up radio shows, DJ sets or anything that uses other people's music you need to clear each track in it. Owning a piece of music doesn't entitle you to broadcast it, it merely entitles you to listen to it.



This is a tricky subject. If you are german, you are entitled to broadcast it.

Germany has mandatory licensing for broadcast through GEMA.


Well, you'd still owe a fee as the broadcaster. Unless I'm very muh mistaken, you can't just buy a bunch of CDs and then have public performance rights; it's just that as long as you pay the GEMA fees, rightholders can't decline to license the work to you.

Here's a good Techdirt article about GEMA (and regular readers will know I usually find TD a deplorable source due to poor reportage, but this is an exception): https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130425/17042522839/how-g...


That's why I said "entitled". Yes, you don't have the license unless you pay GEMA (after the fact, btw), but the license must be granted to you at a fixed fee.




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