Yep... that's the way it works and I don't suppose it is any different in
the EU... I know a gent in the UK that makes absolutly sure anything he
posts is beyond copyright... He's not doing that for his health I am
sure.
Good grief, local night clubs here in nowhere Maine are getting hit for
the cover bands not paying royalties... thousands upon thousands of
dollars...!!! Do a Beatles tune and you must pay Michael Jackson... and
that goes for Buddy Holly too... Michael Jackson own that folio also...
Us old buzzards from the 50 - 60's have to consider ourselves very lucky
that we didn't get caught up in copyright issue for doing covers.
Also with folk music... some of that material is copy protected also...
A.P. Carter made good money buying songs for a few bucks then issueing a
copyright on music and songs that came out from the mountian folk...
Think of all the early blues folks that got ripped... Even Elvis'
management 'borrowed' a few tunes without paying... or caring for that
matter... big money wins and wins big...
I know of a few cases where folk songs that were gathered for a project
for the Library of Congress got copyrighted too... that's messed up but it is
a fact. I don't think it legal or right for any individual to copyright
anything that he/she has gathered for a Federal project being funded with
tax dollars but it has happened... more than once too...
To be sure you need an attorney and even then you might be flying into a
windmill... be very careful... :-)
vince
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Lee Revell wrote:
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
