Copyright issues
Copyright issues
If you play the keys from someone elses track in your own music.. i.e say play a simple 1 bar 4 note bassline in your own track with a totally different patch - whats the issues involved?
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there's two elements to a track's copyright, one is copyright for it's publishing, the other is copyright for it's recording.
if you sample something from a cd, you are affected by the copyright restrictions of the recording and require clearance. if you play it yourself, you are doing a cover and nobody can stop you from doing that, however you may end up needing to follow up with publishing royalties should you make money off your track.
if you sample something from a cd, you are affected by the copyright restrictions of the recording and require clearance. if you play it yourself, you are doing a cover and nobody can stop you from doing that, however you may end up needing to follow up with publishing royalties should you make money off your track.
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but if its played out of context, and so really your not doing a cover - cause say your playing the lead form another song that has say 16 notes in it, you bring it down to 4 and play it as a bassline, with a totally different patch (but played side by side you probably would notice a similarity)- i mena, no ones going to call that cover are they?
but if its played out of context, and so really your not doing a cover - cause say your playing the lead form another song that has say 16 notes in it, you bring it down to 4 and play it as a bassline, with a totally different patch (but played side by side you probably would notice a similarity)- i mena, no ones going to call that cover are they?
I think ur pretty safe there.jeskola wrote:Nice,..
but if its played out of context, and so really your not doing a cover - cause say your playing the lead form another song that has say 16 notes in it, you bring it down to 4 and play it as a bassline, with a totally different patch (but played side by side you probably would notice a similarity)- i mena, no ones going to call that cover are they?
There are only so many notes you can play with and as long as its different sounding in a different context you will be fine.
A cover is the whole song with no change of structure or lyrics.sweetjesus wrote:there's two elements to a track's copyright, one is copyright for it's publishing, the other is copyright for it's recording.
if you sample something from a cd, you are affected by the copyright restrictions of the recording and require clearance. if you play it yourself, you are doing a cover and nobody can stop you from doing that, however you may end up needing to follow up with publishing royalties should you make money off your track.
All royalties go to composers unless you negociate % for a different arrangement, adaptation.
Re-recording an extract is NOT a cover and requires authorization from publisher AND composers. and negociation in how many % you'll give them.
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it's true that in all the cases of plagiarism complaints, only the songs that have similar melodies (theme, or vocal line) are considered.sqook wrote:Care to define the difference between a "melody" and a "bassline"?jahnlay wrote:There's no copyright on basslines, only on the melody or lyrics of songs.
If you play a similar bass line, the author of that bass line may file a complaint but there's (until now and not that I know of) never been a case of a bass line considered as plagiarism.
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I think I remember that there was a case in the eighties with the "Ghostbusters"-movie-title-track (who sang that one?). Huey Lewis claimed that it was plagiarism from one of his songs ("I need a new drug" if I remember correctly). The similarity between the two songs was mainly the bassline.Chris J wrote:it's true that in all the cases of plagiarism complaints, only the songs that have similar melodies (theme, or vocal line) are considered.sqook wrote:Care to define the difference between a "melody" and a "bassline"?jahnlay wrote:There's no copyright on basslines, only on the melody or lyrics of songs.
If you play a similar bass line, the author of that bass line may file a complaint but there's (until now and not that I know of) never been a case of a bass line considered as plagiarism.
But I do not remember the court's decision.
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"With the 1984 release of Ghostbusters, Huey Lewis & the News sued the author of the film title song, Ray Parker Jr.. The suit cited similarities between his theme song and their earlier hit "I Want a New Drug". According to Huey Lewis and the News, this was especially damaging to them since the Ghostbusters theme song was so popular, rising to #1 on the charts for three weeks. The band won the case and Parker Jr. was ordered to pay damages. The band was earlier approached to write the theme song for the movie."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Lewis_and_the_News)
"With the 1984 release of Ghostbusters, Huey Lewis & the News sued the author of the film title song, Ray Parker Jr.. The suit cited similarities between his theme song and their earlier hit "I Want a New Drug". According to Huey Lewis and the News, this was especially damaging to them since the Ghostbusters theme song was so popular, rising to #1 on the charts for three weeks. The band won the case and Parker Jr. was ordered to pay damages. The band was earlier approached to write the theme song for the movie."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Lewis_and_the_News)
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it was more than the bassline though, it's the bass line and the synth, and the rhythm, the feel of the song,pepezabala wrote: I think I remember that there was a case in the eighties with the "Ghostbusters"-movie-title-track (who sang that one?). Huey Lewis claimed that it was plagiarism from one of his songs ("I need a new drug" if I remember correctly). The similarity between the two songs was mainly the bassline.
But I do not remember the court's decision.
I just compared the two, and the bass is actually slightly different.
Huey didn't invent that E /D-A/ E bass line. Gloria from Them had the same and countless others. Amazing that they won though
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