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Stage 8 The DJ Business Course 4 of 6

Music, Copyright and the Law

Intermediate 6 lessons · 32 min

The part most DJs guess at. Whether you are allowed to play other people's records at all, what happens when you put a mix online, and the licensing questions that turn up once you are charging money. Ellaskins is careful to say he is not a lawyer, and nor is this site - treat it as a map of what to ask about.

By the end of this course you will be able to

  • Say what you are and are not licensed to do with music you bought
  • Put a mix online with a realistic expectation of what happens
  • Respond sensibly to a copyright claim
  • Know which licences a paid gig may need

Lessons

  1. Is it legal to play other people's music?

    5:16

  2. Legal advice for the mobile DJ

    1:33

  3. Keeping a mix from being blocked

    3:31

  4. Playing other people's music in an online mix

    10:13

  5. Why copyright claims land on DJ mixes

    10:34

  6. Dealing with a copyright claim

    Optional 1:19

The stages are the way through

Below this line is the back catalogue, newest first. Useful for browsing, but it is not a course - the videos are in the order they were filmed, not the order to learn them in. Work the stages instead: each one assumes the one before it.

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