On 3/11/07, Kjetil S. Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bob van der Poel: > > > Anyone know much about the legalities of posting music recorded by > oneself, but written by someone else? I put up a few recordings on my > web site, mostly as a demo of MMA ... but I got to wondering the other > day if some nice lawyer is going to be knocking on my door? I'm not too > worried since I do live in Canada, and the server is <somewhere in > Europe>. But, still ... one has to wonder. > I don't know the laws, but I would be extremely surprised if this is illegal in Europe.
Why? This is how copyright law has always worked. You write a song, you get to charge people royalties to perform it. Lee