Are you legal council for some one and trolling for answers/opinions? Reason being your really getting into the legal side on a first post. As well as adding a specific software product into it this question in a way that kind of opens my eyes wide when I first read it.
Since your quoting me about Billy Joel... That was for long term planetarium shows where certain artists and certain production companies deny the use of their content when approached or in the past have insisted on sync licenses for long term fixed installations. Such discussions come up when the sponsor in the past was a local radio station. It was an example mentioned at an industry conference long ago. So long ago I can't even remember which one... Nor even remember who gave the presentation on rights...
By the theoretical construct in your third paragraph, a pre-teen girl dancing to a Brit Spears song at a dance school recital for parents where she was not a paid employee, would almost certainly have to have her choreography approved by Miss Spears and her assignees/manager/producer etc. in advance. Since that doesn't happen, although I'm sure there is case law some place, it makes me curious why your asking.
Would you like to introduce yourself and tell us why your asking?
I would take old copyright posts here with the value of a grain of salt, as the Internet has taken off wildly since then, and much of the law has changed.
A few years after that post, I saw a beautiful licensed outdoor graphics show at an amusement park with "We Didn't Start the Fire", by one Billy Joel...
Steve
Last edited by mixedgas; 07-24-2020 at 18:08.
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When I still could have...