I'd like to know if anyone knows an appropriate forum (unless here on hydrogen audio is the place) to inquire about copyright and things like that.
For example, I want to know what I need 2 do when I want 2 make, say, 1000 copies of an audio recording, and don't know who the copyright holder is, or I want to make one copy each of, say, 15 songs or so, each owned by a different owner.
In either case, I'm willing to either pay the royalty fees (which I understand currently is 9.1 cents or 1.75 cents per minute of playing time or fraction thereof, whichever is greater) for whatever it is I want to copy.
In one particular case (where I want to make 1 copy of about 15 songs, and in this case I don't know who the copyright holders are), I'd like to have a friend of mine (an audio engineer btw) make some copies of some songs for me that he has. (I asked him a couple weeks ago and he said he didn't want to cause of copyright issues.) I would like to be able (even if I send a payment to the copyright office instead of the actual artists - this would make it a little easier on me if I could pay one source in this particular case instead of several different entities) to take care of the copyright royalty payment concerns.
Any suggestions on what I could do to resolve this?