Your music … your dreams
Found this article on Wired. Good reading, although rather frustrating. There are millions of cover songs on YouTube, with around 12,000 new covers uploaded in the last 24 hours. Nearly 40,000 people covered Rolling in the Deep 11,000 took on Pumped Up Kicks, 6,000 were inspired by Somebody That I Used to Know. Until recently, all but a sliver were illegal, considered infringement under current
Musicians allowed to regain control of their work after 35 years, so long as they apply at least two years in advance …
When a music CD is inserted in a computer connected to the internet, the media player application (like Itunes and Windows Media Player) go through a convoluted system of taking the number of tracks on a CD, the running times of the tracks, and then comparing this information to a database of existing CDs online where it then retrieves the album, artist, track information, and
Interesting article from 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.