Originally Posted By: richardcrw
Sorry to come so late to this thread, but it's the most relevant one I could find and I have a specific question.

If I create a song with my own chord progression, key and tempo, but it is entirely composed of realtracks, which I have generated repeatedly to find the one that fits best, and then used individually by exporting the .wav files and remixing them in my DAW...

Then is it a violation of the licensing agreement if I put that song onto a commercial album, without adding any other instrument layers to it?

Thanks for any light you can shed on this concrete use case.

If it helps...

Firstly, it's your county's copyright laws that will control your initial creation of something. So hunt for those on the internet.

In most places around the world, it is Melody and Lyrics that are copyrightable. Distinctive harmonic riffs that are signature components of a song are also copyrightable.

If you use BIAB to create a wholly original song that you've composed the melody to and the lyrics for, then you own that 100% and can do with it what you want.

Oh the other hand, if you take a pre-existing song that has not yet entered into public domain and you create your own arrangement of the melody and the lyrics, you need to pay fees and get permission to use this if it's for anything outside your own home. A song's copyright owners fully control all arrangements of that song.

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Noel

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