Originally Posted By: PhillyJazz
Jazzmammal: Out of curiosity, are you and administrator of this forum?


Oh yeah, sure. It's just that it's in very poor taste to be talking about how to find illegal music downloads on a commercial music site.

Forum Rules:

8. Posting (or requesting) links to songs, music or other copyrighted material is forbidden. You are allowed to post links to your own original songs.

FORUM RULES are listed right at the top in big bold letters. It's not that difficult to understand.

Copyright law is spelled out in detail all over the net and you can find tons of hits in 10 seconds so please don't take my word for it. Here's one good one:

http://www.gcglaw.com/resources/entertainment/music-copyright.html

Short and sweet, chords cannot be copywritten but melodies and certain song specific musical hooks are. Technically you're not even allowed to do public performances for free without permission. Whether or not you're making a dime off of it has nothing to do with it, it's the performance that counts. Do we all violate this on a daily basis, sure but it's like driving 95 down the freeway for years and you never got caught. Doesn't make it legal, you just never got caught.

Bob


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