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i always thought it meant if you was making money from other peoples music it is illegal ...



Money has nothing to do with (in the pure sense). Copyright is a "right to copy" (that makes sense). The bottom line is that you don't have permission to copy unless you pay for that right or get permission from the copyright owner. It is pretty simple. Playing covers in your own home is fine, playing covers in venue that pays for that right via payments to ASCAP, BMI, .... are fine too. Making a cover of a rolling stones tune with BIAB and posting it at soundclick is NOT alright. Now we know that 99.9% of the time the copyright owners are not coming after you or Soundclick. But it is still not allowed.

There is tons of info on the internet about copyrights, but getting a simple layman's version that is 100% correct is hard to find.

EDIT: rharv -- nice link!

Kevin

Last edited by Kemmrich; 09/09/09 01:32 PM.
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