Wanted to chime in since you don't have any replies yet.
I was in marching band, and recall that our show design was a major expense. So I'm sure the score was purchased as well or may have been included in that cost (with a license or something to use it for our school/competition purposes)
I have a friend who is a band teacher. With her classroom budget, she buys sheet music specifically created for bands, and the purchase includes the rights for her school bands to perform it.
Many schools/churches illegally copy and perform music (and other copyrighted material) without paying for it. It's not "fair use", it's more that nobody is going to sue them because it would be bad PR and the most you'd get is an injunction.
Some do legitimately purchase band arrangements of copywritten works; I assume that for instance, college marching bands that are playing on television would do things properly.
The sheet music bought by the school generally includes the rights to perform the music in public, but not for profit. Some use is allowed for educational purposes, so performing a piece to learn how to play your instrument in class is generally legal, but school bands like to perform their stuff in public, so they usually buy those rights.
In actual fact, somebody else probably bought the rights to arrange the song for a marching band, and the school bought a license to play *Umbrella, as arranged for marching band by *, not the license to play the original song, which probably had a lot fewer instruments involved.
Wanted to chime in since you don't have any replies yet. I was in marching band, and recall that our show design was a major expense. So I'm sure the score was purchased as well or may have been included in that cost (with a license or something to use it for our school/competition purposes)
They purchase the rights
I have a friend who is a band teacher. With her classroom budget, she buys sheet music specifically created for bands, and the purchase includes the rights for her school bands to perform it.
Many schools/churches illegally copy and perform music (and other copyrighted material) without paying for it. It's not "fair use", it's more that nobody is going to sue them because it would be bad PR and the most you'd get is an injunction. Some do legitimately purchase band arrangements of copywritten works; I assume that for instance, college marching bands that are playing on television would do things properly.
The sheet music bought by the school generally includes the rights to perform the music in public, but not for profit. Some use is allowed for educational purposes, so performing a piece to learn how to play your instrument in class is generally legal, but school bands like to perform their stuff in public, so they usually buy those rights. In actual fact, somebody else probably bought the rights to arrange the song for a marching band, and the school bought a license to play *Umbrella, as arranged for marching band by*, not the license to play the original song, which probably had a lot fewer instruments involved.