I want to do a piano tutorials platform and I have copyrights question
<p>We are working on a solution to learn the piano, like <a href="https://playlumi.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this one</a>, or <a href="https://latouchemusicale.com/en/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this one</a>.</p>
<p>I have read that for each song that I will add on the platform, I'll need to have the permission of the artist (and we will probably need to pay a fee each time a song is played or something like this).
Is it true even if we are <strong>not playing sound</strong> on the platform? (We will just show lights from our physical object to indicate the pianist how to play a song). Or is it considered as <strong>fair use</strong>?</p>
<p>If it is the case, is there a way to have a contract with a lot of artists easily? Or do we need to contact each artist individually?</p>

<p>There are different rights involved. The music, in musical notation form, has copyright. The typeset sheet music itself may have a different copyright. Any recordings of the music may have separate rights.</p>
<p>Many artists will be signed up with a synch agent and if you contact a synch agent they will be able to licence music to you from their portfolio of artists.</p>
<p>Or you need to stick to out-of-copyright or royalty-free music, or compose your own.</p>

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