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Is looking up the lyrics for a song illegal?
I was dumbstruck when I found out today that apparently posting the lyrics to a song is copyright infringement. I literally asked ChatGPT for the lyrics to "Around the World" by Daft Punk, ...
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Are entertainment venues in the US required to make sound level logs publicly available?
I read about France:
Another part of the regulations concerns information that must be provided to the public. Night clubs and venues that can host more than 300 people are now required to ...
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Is monetizing a piano video playing others' sheets illegal?
Say, I bought a piano sheet from a youtuber in websites like mymusicsheet. I made some rearrangement to it or not, (does this make any change?) then I uploaded a video playing it in youtube and ...
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Legality of busking a song with copyrighted melody but using different lyrics to deliver a message
Are there any legal impediments to busking a song with melody and lyrics copyrighted in the United States---with the same melody but with different lyrics---on U.S. streets?
Does it matter if the song ...
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Does Payola apply to Spotify and related services?
If someone paid a Playlist Curator to host music on the curator's playlist, without any disclosure of the payment, would that be illegal?
US Title 47 Section 508 states this kind of behavior is ...
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Obnoxiously loud music from a festival
There's a local annual festival that plays their music really loudly. I can hear it from three and a half miles away, and it's really annoying. There are houses just a few hundred feet away; I'm sure ...
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If I use a preset for a synthesizer VST in a song and make a commercial use of the song, do I need some license for this preset?
Assume one uses a preset for some synthesizer VST in a song and make a commercial use of the song: does one need some license for this preset? I live in the United States.
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How similar should a tune be to constitute theft of someone else's tune?
i am a composer of hip hop songs. As opposed to rap songs, hip hop songs are very melodic by nature. now sometimes i get inspired by someone else's tune, or write my own tune and then find out ...
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Would I be violating copyright by transcribing music that was written over 100 years ago, but published in 1992?
A particular set of piano rolls were recorded before 1913, but to my knowledge were not published until 1989. The recordings are piano transcriptions of symphonic works, performed by their composer/...
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In the US, is it legal to download mashup songs from YouTube for personal use?
Let's take for example the song Viva la Pompeii, a mashup of Pompeii by Bastille and Viva La Vida by Coldplay, both copyrighted songs. As far as I can tell, the mashup itself is not copyrighted.
If I ...
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Is a teacher playing music in the hallway legal?
I am a highschooler in Alabama (USA) in a school of 700 or more (not 100% sure). When walking through the school, there is a teacher playing music into the hallways.
The issue is that the songs she ...
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Creating a cover song for a video game
Based on some cursory internet searches, I understand the following:
If you create a cover song, you still need a license for it from whoever owns the original song.
If you want to put a song in a ...
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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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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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Parody or Infringement? (United States of America)
I am struggling with the difference between these definitions.
Q: Is this a Parody or a Copyright Infringement?
In a proposed pilot for a TV/Web show aimed at children for edutainment, one of the ...
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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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Can a Work For Hire agreement be made without compensation?
I'm working on a musical recording that will be owned by my LLC and released for free under a Creative Commons license. I would like to include a few friends as session musicians who would like to ...
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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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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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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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What prevents me from making a derivative of a work never fixed in a tangible medium?
Suppose I'm a singer-songwriter in the United States, and at one of my concerts, I perform a previously unreleased (and in fact never-before-recorded) song. I play this song from memory and by ear; I ...
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Copyright infringement of 10 second music clip
I have recently created an animation/parody of famous song and have added about an 8 second clip of the song as the background audio for my animation.
However, I would like to post the animation (...
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Legality of Music Transcription Service
I'm considering creating a music transcription service as a side hobby project. With this service, clients could request that I transcribe a song (or parts of a song) for them in exchange for a fee. I ...
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Getting a portable version of CD music collection
I own hundreds of original music CDs. I purchased them all at major retail stores.
I want to listen to them when I workout. But hundreds of music CDs will not fit in my pocket.
I've looked into "...
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What can I do to use classical music in an advertisement?
I'm considering using one of the following pieces of music for a commercial (advertisement of my book):
Richard Wagner, Ride of the Valkyries
Carl Orff, Carmina Burana, O Fortuna - Fortune plango ...
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