Pay to Play

[jaddams]

{i]Originally posted by Gduns[/]A song, is a song, is a song. By copyright laws change a line, or a lyric, it is not the same song.

If you recorded someone singing a song from a chartbuster disk.

the words will not appear. therefore it is not an illegal copy of their product.

since words do not appear, why can you not sell a recording of the singers work. There will be nothing on the disk referencing any brand, of Mfg.

anyone have an answer on this thought.

Now we are really taking the cake, beginning tomorrow morning, I am going to go into the music business.

Let’s see, I’ll start by changing a few words on Beethoven’s 9th and then I’ll call it Addams 1st. They I'll do a few Wagner’s and just for the heck of it and because I like popular music, let’s change a few Sinatra’s, Celine Dions and a few others.

With all the music out there, I doubt I’d ever have to do any thinking to become a musical genius, just change a word here and there, replace a chord now and then and BINGO, here is a brand new song. Could you guys imagine the possibilities? Why bother with buying CDGs? Why not just record the tracks put our words and sell them away?

It cannot be done., legally that is. When someone puts notes of paper whether these notes make sense or not, it’s consider an original work and as such it’s protected by the copyright laws for the life of its author plus 70 years after death.

There are certain exceptions on copyright and its called “fair use,” fair use does not mean we can lift anything we want and use it someplace else. There is a big different if you lift a few pages of the Encyclopedia Britannica or if you lift four lines of a six lines poem.

If you hummm a song on a motion picture or television soundtrack. Not words, no band, just humming a song. You STILL have to pay royalty for that use.

Here is the bottom line: If you want to charge singers to sing at your karaoke show, then do the decent thing and pay the royalty that the original author so rightfully deserve.

Sincerely,

Jon