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How to use free sound for commercial use?
I discovered that some sound effects in Minecraft comes from web sites that offers free sfx, some of these sounds are under the 'CC BY-NC 3.0' licence which is a non-commercial one.
Yet, Minecraft ...
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Use of copyrighted music on my dancing video app
I'm building a dancing video android app based on talent. I wanted to know if dancing videos which contain copyrighted music can actually be posted or if I should get music licensing from record ...
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how does copyright work for performer and singing cover tunes and or singing a translation i worote
I have translated a few songs from the 19 century and early 20th century. i sing as well and would like to perform them and post them on my youtube page and or record them .
One one of the ...
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How are MIDI files of copyrighted music licensed?
Anyone with a music studio can easily download a .midi file from the internet, and then use it to produce a musical track. A midi file exists online for almost every song in the world, and you can ...
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Is making a home music server legal?
I am planning to make a Local-Area-Network personal music server program.
The idea is that the program lets you host your music so you can stream it from any of your devices on your local network (...
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Using recorded music for a light show
I'm in a band and we have a concert coming up. We play our own music, and even though we include some covers in our performances, I'm aware of venue blanket licenses and that I should not worry about ...
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Is it legal to sell products whose design uses titles of copyrighted songs?
There are some similar questions here, but I believe mine is a little different. Is it legal to sell products (t-shirts, mugs, etc.) that use typography art of the titles of famous songs. Also, can ...
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Can I use Creative Common remixes of original songs in my apps?
I am starting to develop an advent calendar ready for December. For this app, I want to have Christmas music.
In order to make sure that I don't run into any copyright issues, I am using Creative ...
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How to legally exploit an old Jazz music without copyright issues?
I am an amateur musician and I would like to do some mixage (partial exploitation, such as a melody) or remix of some Jazz oldies and publish them in Youtube.
I don't earn money from this (no video ...
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Will my app i'm building be breaching any copyright laws [closed]
Currently building an app where it may include copyrighted words as its running like a karaoke type app
With it including things that are copyrighted what can I do in regards to this?
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When is it illegal to play someone else's copyrighted song on an instrument?
I am learning guitar and found out that Justin Sandercoe (from famous guitar teaching website justinguitar.com) has been forced to remove some of his lessons because the song he was teaching his ...
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Is modifying a song's audio using youtube's Phase Vococer to slow it down to 0.25% a copyright violation?
On the surface, this seems like a simple question. At quick glance, you might immediately say: "Yes, changing the speed of a song is a derivative work".
According to wikipedia, a transformed work is ...
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Sharing music BOUGHT from Amazon Music?
I know that reproduction is, generally, illegal.
However, if you don't buy the music and try to share the (encrypted) files, they don't play if one doesn't use the Amazon Music app.
Buying the music ...
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Uploading images of music notation: Do we violate copyright laws?
As I have noticed, it is rather common on music.SE to post a photo of a few bars and ask for help how to play it, e.g. fingering, how to play ornaments, etc.
Is that according to copyright laws?
My ...
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To what extent can one claim copyright over a sound?
It would seem unlikely that one could secure copyright of the musical note A 440 (for example). Generally, more complex sounds (music, sound effects) are complex permutations, mutations or ...
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Create a lead sheet and play a song in a church service
I am an amateur musician who often performs (sings, plays guitar, plays piano) at church. I attend a Unitarian Universalist congregation, and so the songs are often secular ones (a recent one was ...
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How do I copyright a song with my lyrics but a public domain melody?
I used a melody from an old Eastern European folk song and my own lyrics to record myself singing and playing the guitar.
Do I copyright just the lyrics and just the performance or copyright the ...
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Multieffect pedals- Do companies pay royalties to original pedal makers?
When looking into effects list of multieffect pedals (ex: Boss Gt6, Zoom ms50g...), the manual clearly identifies the effects of whom the original pedals where modeled from. And recent multieffect ...
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How much of a song's audio can I include in teaching materials without copyright violation?
I would like to build some educational material that would incorporate music.
Is it possible to include short sections of musical works without violating copyright? How much of the song would be "...
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Copyright issues - Cover song on online platforms
If I upload a cover song on platform where a cover song can not be sold(commercialized) but users have an option to support me financially on that website. Will I be liable for copyright issues?
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Reproducing sheet music as artwork
I'm thinking about starting a business that uses written melodies as artwork (making a poster using the sheet music of somebody's favourite song, for example). I would be transcribing the tunes by ear ...
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Is it illegal to post a music mix containing professional artists' songs?
I enjoy electronic music and making mixes / compositions of my favourite songs. I'm not a producer, I just download and put together good songs for others such as my friends and work colleagues to ...
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Rights for live performances
If i want to use an audio and/or video recording of a live event with comercial purposes, who are the parties involved that i need to contact?
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Is performance of a copyrighted written music copyright infringement?
Suppose If play some piece from sheet music that contains Copyright information such as:
Information: Copyright 2006 ABC Music Co. ... Reproduced by permission of DEF Music. All rights Reserved.
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Is it necessary to audibly announce a copyright notice when using music licensed under Creative Commons Attribution?
I would like to use music licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) as on-hold music; however, the only way to provide attribution would be to announce a copyright notice ...
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Can I be liable for copyright infringement if I allow users to create and share drumpad rhythms?
I've been tossing around the possibility of making something like the Beatnik Rhythmic Analyzer. From scratch. The idea I have is that people will enter in rhythms in the form of actual music notation,...
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Are song titles protected by copyrights?
I have been working on a brand for a while, I have multiple designs and each design is based off of the logo, which is a clean styled text.
If the name of my brand was inspired/is an existing song ...
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Who is owed royalties when a song samples a song that has sampled another song?
When I first heard Alessia Cara's song "Here" I thought she had directly sampled Portishead's "Glory Box" which in turn samples Isaac Hayes' "Ike's Rap II". I later found this was not true, but this ...
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copyrighted midi files vs public domain midi files under public domain or creative commons
Here's a scenario. Let's say I use the public domain midi files to make professionally produced sheet music/tablature for teaching purposes.
I know I can sell these because I can do whatever with ...
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How does copyright licensing work?
While reading through an album booklet I came across a scenario where the artist, Lana Del Rey had a copyright under exclusive license to sed record company. From an ownership perspective how does ...
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