Legal question about copywrites

[Mr. Wilson]

Hope Alan Boyd or Jon Stebbins or someone else who really knows truth can help me out...I understand copywrite law when recording + selling cd"s Or videos when recording someone elses tune.. Songwriter gets paid for sales + airplay...I have a  cover band that plays rock ..blues ..country rock.. Local gigs are easy to get but we are headin for casino"s..Hopefully... found a connection..We want to put up our own web site or myspace site...We do write a few originals but they pay us to play cover tunes..Now I want to put  up a concert video with edits of the tunes we play.. It is not for sale.. But..We will get gigs hopefully from that....Is this legal..?? Is there a time limit to how much of a tune we can use..Without paying royalties..??...Any real info..?? I bring this up cause i checked on .. the orange County Beach band.. Chris Farmer"s band.. They have a video edit of a bunch of BB tunes they play live..Also Good vibrations band has done the same thing..Using short edits of BB songs.... What is legal + what is not.. Thanks for any info to all of you..!!!

[Joshilyn Hoisington]

Under the exact letter of copyright law, any distribution of a song you didn't write yourself requires a mechanical royalties.  It doesn't matter if you're selling it or not.

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[SBGIRL]

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

[Mr. Wilson]

Allright thank you both for your help..!!