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Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 57-222

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • performing rights: refer to "public performance for profit"; the word "user" means any person who directly or indirectly performs or causes to be performed musical compositions for profit; the term "blanket license" includes any device whereby public performance for profit is authorized of the combined copyrights of two or more owners; the term "blanket royalty or fee" includes any device whereby prices for performing rights are not based on the separate performance of individual copyrights. See Kansas Statutes 57-201

No performing rights society shall enter into, or offer to enter into, a contract for the payment of royalties by a proprietor unless at the time of the offer, or any time thereafter, but no later than 72 hours prior to the execution of that contract, the society provides to the proprietor, in writing, the following:

(a) A schedule of the rates and terms of royalties under the contract;

(b) upon request of the proprietor, the opportunity to review the most currently available list of the members or affiliates represented by the performing rights society; and

(c) notice that it will make available, upon request of any proprietor, at the sole expense of the proprietor, the most currently available list of the copyrighted musical works in the performing rights society’s repertory, provided the notice shall include a toll-free telephone number and shall specify the means by which such information may be secured.