Shark Bite at The Creekmore Law Firm PC: Entertainment Media Licensing for Public Places

So, everyone probably knows, or at least presumes, that a sports bar has to have some licensing in place to show “the Big Game,” otherwise known as the Super Bowl in normal non-legal-pressured conversations, but most businesses don’t fully appreciate just how deeply the licensing need runs. Music playing at your office, or even just from the receptionist’s computer? CDs or radio playing softly in your retail shop? Television running continuously somewhere for guests?  Planning an office party or reception with a groovy cover band for entertaining your clients?   Ever added a few cool tunes to a PowerPoint presentation to help jazz it up a bit? Don’t be one of the many businesses that finds out the hard way after receiving a nastygram from a rights holder of what you should have done to secure the rights to the media you use.  Join us this month to understand when and what licenses you might need to conduct business-as-usual.