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09-30-2009, 02:32 AM
Eight seconds or under is OK for free use (or maybe it is 13). I am sure when TV shows use non-Japanese songs for themesongs, etc. they do have to pay.
And you would be surprised the volume of Japanese TV that is seen outside of Japan. Heck, I get "TV Japan" in my house, which has 24 programming of Japanese TV.
And radio stations do pay rights to play music...they just pay to a single body that then distributes to individual artists. This is why radio stations submit playlists to that body so they can figure out how much goes to each artist. This is partially why one hit song can keep an artist above water for a life time.
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