Originally Posted By: Guitarhacker
If you recreate the copyrighted work of another in BB.... it's copyright infringement if you do not obtain the proper license to use that song IF you plan to release it for the public to hear. You can record it for your personal consumption with out problems since no one else will hear it. The moment you post it on line or burn CD's to give or sell..... you are in violation if you have not purchased the license to do so legally.


If you create a new original work using BB & RB tracks.... it is 100% YOUR song. Since you are a licensed user if you bought the program, you are allowed to use the tracks in any commercial way you wish and you do not have to list the tracks or the PG company in any way or pay any royalties on those tracks. In fact I would NOT list PG as contributor on the tracks in the way you might list a studio musician. Doing so needlessly muddies the waters and can make things complicated under certain circumstances. When using a song in a commercial project, it suffices to say that you own 100% of the rights for the song and master. Like I said .... If you have bought and paid for a copy of BB/RB from PG Software, you have the legal right and license to use the tracks royalty free and without any other permissions, written or otherwise.

I have a number of songs created in BB/RB copyrighted and signed into commercial libraries and with publishers. There is no problem with using BB/RB tracks in the songs. I simply had to affirm that I owned 100% of the rights to the song, which I do, and for the samples I use, that I have the license to use them legally..... which as an owner of PG software, I do.

Hope that clarifies it for you.


Thank you for explaining that, as I find these things confusing. How do you go about copyright your own songs? What kind of cost is there involved?

Some one once told me that if you post my own creation/s to myself, registered post, and keep the CD sealed\un-open, then it is as good as a filed copyright content. I have my doubts though.

How do songwriters get their royalties?

Thanks again for replying to my post.