+1. I'd like an answer for this myself. I wonder why no one's answered it for a month?

On another note, I (and many other DJ's I personally know who suggested it to me) tend to do my live broadcast (admittedly of stuff not on Whitelabel.net such as Trance, Techno and Promo Only Mainstream Club) on USTREAM or over Shoutcast Radio Stations when asked to DJ for them.

Did you guys read the TOS?

whitelabel.net <- click, Whitelabel end User Agreement.

I did and it's this particular point (Section 2.1) which I find somewhat gray:



Specifically, what constitutes Promotional Purposes? If, as a DJ, I test a new song on a crowd to gauge their reaction to it, I would consider it a promotional action and it would help me learn whether or not to ever play that song again.

Likewise; if, as a DJ, I record a short mix for YouTube, USTREAM, or other video services (even Facebook), does this constitute Promotional Playing or would this constitute a violation of the licensing agreement - especially since it potentially opens the song (which, would more likely than not be watermarked) to playback outside markets to which the song was not made available for over Whitelabel.net by the supplying label.

It's the latter which causes me to generally avoid using any Whitelabel.net material for online based broadcast / radio-shows.

I am not a lawyer or expert, but this might be the limiting section:

Me neither, so take what I say with a grain of salt...

I have two points:

The first is that there's the letter of the law and the spirit of it. License holders often provide restrictions of usage but will be somewhat selective in their enforcement of those restrictions depending on the specific usage.

Secondly, generally speaking record labels are usually quite cool with DJ mixes finding their way out on to the interwebs. Stand alond tracks, however, are more frowned upon.

So broadly speaking I would say that using Whitelabel.net audio tracks in your online DJ mixes is not something that will attract unwelcome responses from record labels.

easy fix every time you upload a mix on youtube just include a "fair use" disclaimer and you should be golden, I know this because I myself has a youtube channel with regular viewers. here include this next time you put a vid up.

-Copyright Disclaimer-

Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use

alright guys.. thanks for the input. I will try that out DJ EYCEE. I just wish that youtube can weed out a stand alone track verses a dj mix.. that would be awsome.