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Originally Posted by kane
Technically if someone records a cover song and then uses it to make money they should be paying royalties to the original song writer or the holder of the publishing for that song. Somehow I doubt all of those using covers to build an audience are doing so. This means that these people are also fucking over the artists.
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re read the copyright act moron
the copyright holders monopoly only extends to direct revenue not indirect revenue.
if you record a cover and SELL that cover you need to pay royalties,
but the courts have recognized that indirect revenues (like selling a vcr for 1k) is not covered by the monopoly of the copyright holder
doing your own version of someone elses song, and selling your original songs to people who think your cover version is better is exactly the free speech that fair use was designed to protect.
commentary like listen to my version of "gimie more" is valid free speech.
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The record company fucks the artist (no argument on that) and so do all these people who record their songs, get tons of views on YouTube and sell downloads/CDs without paying royalties.
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and this is exactly the situation i was talking about
if you need to get permission to do covers, record companies could force you to sign away all your IP just to get the right
the sign with us or fail senerio is all you would have.
the artist/record companies lose nothing from cover songs being given away on youtube, becaue the only people who would not buy the original would be the people who PREFER the unique cover version
The record companies are not entitled to that money.
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And whatever happened to writing your own songs and building up an audience with your own talent and your own words? I guess it is easier these days just to piggy back and make money off of other people's work.
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when you write a completely original story that doesn't borrow any elements from any previous work in existance then you can talk
free speech has a right to be derivative
hell commentary is ALWAYS derivative since you must comment on something.