> Copyright is probably not that big of a deal, given that it's classical music
Ahem, cough, you've just made the understatement of the century there !
The legal situation regarding music goes waaaayyyyy beyond basic copyright.
It highly specialist field there are lawyers who do nothing but music rights all day, every day.
Google is your friend, but as a very basic outline, you have to consider:
- The use of the recorded music (and hence the rights of the record companies and the performers)
- The use of the composition and lyrics
- Distribution permissions
And, of course if you are not the end-user but the operator of a streaming service then this will likely add not remove complexity.
Whole big books have been written on the subject (e.g. Kohn on Music Licensing at a mere 1636 pages). I'm not even going to begin to try to summarise it - especially as IANAL anyway !
Ahem, cough, you've just made the understatement of the century there !
The legal situation regarding music goes waaaayyyyy beyond basic copyright.
It highly specialist field there are lawyers who do nothing but music rights all day, every day.
Google is your friend, but as a very basic outline, you have to consider:
And, of course if you are not the end-user but the operator of a streaming service then this will likely add not remove complexity.Whole big books have been written on the subject (e.g. Kohn on Music Licensing at a mere 1636 pages). I'm not even going to begin to try to summarise it - especially as IANAL anyway !