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July 20, 2008 at 5:48 pm #653840
saikeraParticipantwell, its basiclly to see who did it first in my eyes, i could be wrong though
so if the day you make your song you register it, that website dates it, and says its yours, but if they manage to show up with something predating it, your out of luckAdSense 336x280August 4, 2008 at 6:38 pm #654595
BIG D OParticipantgetting shit copyrighted is easy…..if it’s your own shit….
AdSense 336x280November 15, 2008 at 4:01 am #659554
_____Participanta lot of good info in here. Thanks guys
AdSense 336x280December 5, 2008 at 9:39 am #660219
AutumnReignParticipant[quote quote="Luminance":1qqcah0l]Hey Everyone,
I had a legal question I was wondering if someone could help me with. Granted, we’re using illegal acapellas here for our mixes but there must be some way to protect your remix right? If I write the backing beat for a song, can I copyright just the beat? Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks!
Lumi[/quote:1qqcah0l]
Hey, whaasaup!
Here’s food for thought…Copyrighting, protecting or downgrading your music may make it hard for us to appreciate your music!Read this article on my Blog, it touches on copyright protection, recording contracts – and some other MUSIC BUSINESS stuff..
The Professional Suicide of a Recording Musician
[url:1qqcah0l]http://4luv4music.blogspot.com/[/url:1qqcah0l]AdSense 336x280December 7, 2008 at 10:54 pm #660385
ScienceSchmienceParticipantSay it is a collaboration between you and Jesus. Nobody robs Jesus
AdSense 336x280January 8, 2009 at 1:59 am #662191
rickfcParticipanta legal question . In myspace if i upload a mash-up is that illegal?
AdSense 336x280January 28, 2009 at 4:54 am #663229
Jonny BuzzParticipant[quote quote="DJ Bobby V":35xi5m7k]Quote by Luminance:
"Granted, we’re using illegal acapellas here for our mixes……"Most studio acapellas (some are leaked) are released through promotional 12" LPs, and CD’s. I currently belong to a digital "record" pool. We are always getting the main mix, instrumental and sometimes the acapella available for download. You have to ask yourself, why would a label release the acapella and the instrumental? They want to give the DJ every available option to play the song. They know we are mixin’ it up to fit our style/club. You might not like their remix package so you make your own. We use to do it live with vinyl, now we can make digital mixes. Until you release it without permission and start making money on it you have nothing to worry about. If you make an instrumental from scratch and it is your own original work, and you want to protect it, then you should publish/copyright it. You can’t do that with someone else’s body of work even if you change all the music. You could submit your remix to the label and if they use it you might get something for it. But you wouldn’t own it.
What are your goals? A remixer, a producer…both? Keep sending your stuff to the labels, that’s the only way your going to make any money. There are books out there and probably web sites that list the contacts and numbers of A&R people at the labels.[/quote:35xi5m7k]good post!
AdSense 336x280January 28, 2009 at 5:39 am #663235
BobaParticipantfizzles wrote:Within the US, the second you finish an original piece it is automatically copyrighted. However, due to schizophrenic nature of courts i would recommend paying to get it officially copyrighted with the government. That way there would be no disputes.To build upon that, you can prove your copyright by mailing yourself a copy of your track on a CD, and leaving it unopened. This can be referred to if a dispute arises, and you can use your CD with the postmark to prove your ownership. This applies for the US, but I’m not sure about copyright law in other countries.
AdSense 336x280January 28, 2009 at 6:11 am #663236
BobaParticipantrickfc wrote:a legal question . In myspace if i upload a mash-up is that illegal?Nope. Only if you try to sell it. (To my knowledge.)
AdSense 336x280February 12, 2009 at 8:53 pm #663987
weiliiParticipantCopyrights are over rated imo.
AdSense 336x280February 14, 2009 at 1:05 pm #664096
aaronv2ParticipantHas anyone thaught of looking into personal DRM for mp3s made by you? Ill have a bit of a research on google and see if theres any possibilities out there.
EDIT: Actually I found this pretty quickly on google [url:3nm1er5a]http://www.content4reprint.com/legal/how-to-copyright-your-music-to-protect-your-future-royalties.htm[/url:3nm1er5a]
AdSense 336x280February 15, 2009 at 9:57 pm #664191
donovan637Participantive been thinkin about this subject for a while now..i used to make all my beats using samples until i came to the point where my skills got way better and my beats started to sound professional..now, to be safe from all legal issues i dont use ANY samples, only the royalty free ones i bought [Deadmau5 released a sample CD for all the house producers]
now that my beats are taken care of im still wondering the same thing when i add acapellas..the only logcal way to go about this is copyright ur beat..then try to get the right for the acapella ur using..but that would only be necesary if ur tryin to make money..if ur just using the acapellas when ur spinning theres not a problem..and if sum1 heard ur remix and tried to mimic it ul be safe cuz ur beats copyrited
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