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Music in private online social gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic
Me and a small group of friends (10 people) are going to have a party. Normally, we would meet each other at someones home. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, everybody will stay at their own ...
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Uploading purchased (edited) music to YouTube
Say that a hobbyist DJ purchases CDs, digital tracks and what are known as mixtapes (free music) and slows them down or things like that. If that DJ wants to share the result of this, is it legal to ...
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Copyright of a children's song with no author or date information
As a follow-up on Copyright of children's folklore songs, artist A wants to use the melody of "Five little ducks". The song is not on the list of public domain songs. A sound recording ...
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Is the .exe file format copyrighted by Microsoft in a creative naming capacity?
I wanted to know if the name of the .exe file format used by Microsoft Operating Systems is copyrighted. As in, is it possible that I'm committing copyright infringement by adding that suffix ("....
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Playing copyrighted music legally -> personal and small group usage
I play guitar. I just want to know what is legal or not regarding my playing copyrighted music. I understand that performing in public (whatever that means!? Formal event? More than just me? Other?))...
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Copyright of children's folklore songs
Suppose artist A wanted to include a song to the tune of a children's nursery rhyme, such as Pretty Little Dutch Girl. This song was written in the 1940s, so if the composer was Australian, it would ...
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Can I get sued if someone uses a song on my app without proper copyrights?
I have a small social media sort of app, if some user were to use a song on my platform without proper copyrights can the platform(my app) get sued ?
No there is no monetization for user.
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Can music publishers/agents demand service fees for compulsory copyright licenses
By my reading of the compulsory copyright licensing rules, if I want to record a cover of a song and sell one copy of it, I would need to obtain a license, but if I send in a proper notice along with ...
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Copyright laws on music instrumental tracks?
First off, I know very little about the law whatsoever - so please bear with me on this one! :) In my spare time, I've being making instrumental accompaniments to some of my favourites musicals and ...
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Risk/Information Regarding Copyright/Trademark Violation
I have previously participated in the illicit accessing of files (music, etc.) that were most likely copyrighted/trademarked/etc. as well as the distribution of modified versions of these files (...
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Legality of short clips cut from famous movies to fit a new soundtrack
Bob has written a short piece of music and realized that it brilliantly fits certain sequences from a certain famous, copyrighted movie. He cuts essentially a music video from those sequences which ...
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Usage rights for a composition that later turned out to be plagiarism
If an artist makes a composition and later turns out to be a plagiarism from another, who bought the rights, or perhaps used it because it was released under creative commons, will it have ...
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Can musicians effectively sue politicans that use their songs without permission?
Just about every presidential election cycle I can recall has multiple stories of candidates using songs at their rallies which they have failed to secure permission for. Afterwards, there will a ...
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What could be done if a TV show used a person's music without that person's permission?
What would happen in the scenario where a show on a TV network played a tune during the show that another person owned? Let's say that the show was broadcast a few years after the music was composed, ...
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Copyright compliance for music used in a TV show
How do shows recorded and syndicated for replay on television (and comparable media) comply with the copyright of a music they play but do not own?
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Do guitar tablature websites or websites that provide sheet music have to pay royalties to songs authors?
Do websites that provide guitar tablature or musical notes of popular songs have to pay royalties to song authors or record labels ?
I'm talking about websites like:
https://www.songsterr.com/
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Can I play the famous song "The Stars and Stripes Forever" in my mobile phone commercial game ? Is there any copyright issue?
The song " The Stars and Stripes Forever " is a very famous song in the US.
The song was composed by John Philip Sousa in 1896.
By a 1987 act of the U.S. Congress, it is the official National ...
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Licensing an image and artwork
A musician asked me to create his latest album cover off one of my photographs.
He's not famous and will only publish his work on a few music websites, so he will use the artwork as a digital file ...
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Why Genius doesn't have problems with lyrics copyright?
I know that lyrics of almost all songs are subject to copyright law (am I right?). But I never heard that Genius (genius.com) where such lyrics are posted without any care had any problems with the ...
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What countries' copyright laws would I need to abide by if I wrote a heavily modified rearrangement of an existing song for third-party usage?
Let's say that I, citizen of Alicetopia in the EU, were creating a derivative work of a copyrighted composition. This would be a heavily modified instrumental rearrangement of an existing song, to the ...
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is creating an app/website/software which uses youtube-dl for videos download from YouTube legal?
I'm pretty sure that it won't be legal in some or the work way.
However, I want to clarify my doubt about legal issues again.
I read this article about it - is it legal to download youtube videos?
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Auto-generating every possible melody to forstall copyright: will this work?
This article describes a scheme to have a computer generate every possible "8-note, 12-beat melody combo" and release it under a Creative Commons license so that anyone can use it (not exactly public ...
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How can I determine what elements of a work are covered by a copyright mark?
I have sheet music for a piece of classical music that bears the following copyright claim:
© 1927 Carl Fischer, New York. © renewed 1955 Fritz Fischer
Fischer is a well-known publisher of ...
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Is musescore.com violating CC-BY-NC by requiring a paid account to download such files?
On musescore.com, there are several song arrangements released under CC-BY-NC (or CC-BY-NC-SA or CC-BY-NC-ND) licenses. However, musescore.com won't let you download many of these unless you have a ...
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Fair use of licenced music snippets in a commercial, educational product
I have a commercial product that teaches music theory using a series of short videos. In an upcoming video, I'd like to give examples of particular theory concepts using several short snippets of ...
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Downloading Music I bought from Google Play [closed]
I have bought a new song on Google Play (using Opinion Rewards). Google gives me the option to download the song but I want to know if it's legal or not.
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Using a public domain opera, recorded by someone else, in a parody
I found a YouTube video of a public domain opera, and I want to use the sound portion in a musical parody. I will only use parts of it, alter it dramatically, and wish to claim "Fair Use." Is it ...
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Is this excerpt from a classical piece copyrighted?
I am writing a progressive rock song of around 10 minutes in length. For the first two minutes, I play Shostakovich's Fugue in A Major. This piece is not in public domain, so I know I have to make ...
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Music Transposition Copyright
So I am designing a mobile app that transposes music for the user. The user can only transpose four notes at a time, and they are required to input the notes themselves. Are there any copyright laws ...
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Mechanical Rights for Beethoven's Piano Sonata
I'd like to use a music based on Beethoven's Piano Sonata in my short movie. I'm planning to ask a violin player to work with the score and use the recorded music for my movie. How can we deal with ...
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