[geeks] Legal Corporate Music Servers

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

Rick Hamell wrote:
> Does any one on the list work for a company that does, or implemented a 
> corporate level music server that was legal in the eyes of the RIAA and 
> their clients?
> 
> I'm finding several companies that provide overhead ambiance music, but 
> I need something that streams to individual desktops.
> 

I think what you could get away with, would be a license for your
"cafeteria" that follows the pricing of the ASCAP model.  That is,
ignore the part about them each listening to separate music and just
focus on a license for a company cafeteria with x number of seats.

Then, set up a big server with a couple of TB disks to store the music
and let people bring in their CDs to rip to the server.

http://www.ascap.com/licensing/generallicensing.html

--Patrick