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Fact is that if you create your own backing track for let's say "Hotel California", you're still performing copyrighted material.




Correct, but venue licensing agreements permit cover songs to be played (otherwise, every cover song you hear at any venue is breaking the law). But using the non-vocal portion of an existing [mechanical] recording is blatant infringement, unless you have permission from the originator to do so (as I understand it).


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