Archive for the ‘Copyright’ Category

When a music CD is inserted in a computer connected to the internet, the media player application (like Itunes and Windows Media Player) goes online and retrieves the album, artist, track information, and even album cover from a central database. Different media players use different databases – Itunes uses Gracenote. Windows Media Player uses AMG.

Copyright Infringement Comparison to Theft. Wikipedia.

A nice article written by someone from the Harry Fox agency describing the basic concepts pretty well.

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ22.pdf (Copyright Office circular 22)

Your copyright is the deed to your music.

Do not assume that an old piece of music is in the public domain and not subject to copyright.

Recording someone else’s song (Covers).

DON’T USE ANYTHING YOU DON’T HAVE PERMISSION OR LICENSING FOR.