The system should be able to be set for alternative "reads" if you are missing a finger or a hand. When one of my colleagues broke 3 right fingers, he had his hand geometry reprogrammed for the left hand for the 6 weeks in a cast.
I don't know costs, but in America, pretty much every song is licensed through BMI or ASCAP. (Broadcast Music International/American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.) Radio stations have to keep playlists which detail songs played and what time they were played. (I believe this is all computer-generated these days; they used to be handwritten logs. Same logs are used to keep track of advertising.) Each radio station pays a license fee for broadcasting copyrighted works each year and that money is divvied up by ASCAP or BMI - using some arcane formula - to the artists and companies involved based on their percentage of play on the playlists.
Same deal works for any music played in a public place where the music is an integral part of the entertainment experience and there is an admission fee of some sort or other revenues are gained from the use of the music (including bars with cover bands or juke boxes, supermarkets - although I think the fee for their music is paid by the company that provides the Muzac tapes, etc.) I worked for two small orchestras in the '90s, and yes, we paid about US$600 per year for the right to perform music still under copyright. We had to submit concert programs 2x yearly to prove content.
Here's where you need a lawyer - if you just broadcast, with no fee to the listener, no ads - so there was no profit involved by the use of that music - would you still need a license? I think no (based on an experience of a community band I played in which did not have to buy an ASCAP license since it NEVER charged concert admission) but don't know for sure.
In the Website writing/design section: The Chicago Manual of Style and a good technical writing handbook. A beginning typography manual - mine is "Stop Stealing Sheep" (Erik Spiekermann & E.M. Ginger, Stop Stealing Sheep & find out how type works, Mountain View (CA) Adobe Press, 1993, pp.174, ISBN 0672485435.) Books on advertising research are also helpful ie: why people look at what they do. Also "Ogilvy on Advertising"
by David Ogilvy.
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The system should be able to be set for alternative "reads" if you are missing a finger or a hand. When one of my colleagues broke 3 right fingers, he had his hand geometry reprogrammed for the left hand for the 6 weeks in a cast.
See Harry Turtledove's series (Guns of the South?)for some good ideas.
I don't know costs, but in America, pretty much every song is licensed through BMI or ASCAP. (Broadcast Music International/American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.) Radio stations have to keep playlists which detail songs played and what time they were played. (I believe this is all computer-generated these days; they used to be handwritten logs. Same logs are used to keep track of advertising.) Each radio station pays a license fee for broadcasting copyrighted works each year and that money is divvied up by ASCAP or BMI - using some arcane formula - to the artists and companies involved based on their percentage of play on the playlists.
Same deal works for any music played in a public place where the music is an integral part of the entertainment experience and there is an admission fee of some sort or other revenues are gained from the use of the music (including bars with cover bands or juke boxes, supermarkets - although I think the fee for their music is paid by the company that provides the Muzac tapes, etc.) I worked for two small orchestras in the '90s, and yes, we paid about US$600 per year for the right to perform music still under copyright. We had to submit concert programs 2x yearly to prove content.
Here's where you need a lawyer - if you just broadcast, with no fee to the listener, no ads - so there was no profit involved by the use of that music - would you still need a license? I think no (based on an experience of a community band I played in which did not have to buy an ASCAP license since it NEVER charged concert admission) but don't know for sure.
In the Website writing/design section: The Chicago Manual of Style and a good technical writing handbook. A beginning typography manual - mine is "Stop Stealing Sheep" (Erik Spiekermann & E.M. Ginger, Stop Stealing Sheep & find out how type works, Mountain View (CA) Adobe Press, 1993, pp.174, ISBN 0672485435.) Books on advertising research are also helpful ie: why people look at what they do. Also "Ogilvy on Advertising" by David Ogilvy.