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Originally Posted by kane
This is mostly what I meant. There are a lot of people out there that record cover versions of songs, put them up on places like YouTube and then sell their version of that song on iTunes, Amazon etc. I would love to see how many of those people are actually paying the original writer/publisher royalties. I would guess it is very few.
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well the answer is zero
if you have ever tried to get your content up on itunes you know the hoops you have to jump thru to get yourself listed.
the crediting for song writers is a pain in the but, if you sell your cover on itunes then yes the song writer get their cut
itunes make sure of that.
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If they force sites like isohunt to filter keywords could a person not just record a cover then contact isohunt (or whatever site they want to put their song on) and tell them that this is a cover song, not the original and all would be good? I have never seen nor heard of the labels trying to force people to get permission in order to do a cover.
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1. read the ruling what you are talking about is in fact automatically prevented by the court order
2. happens all the time, hell it happens for parodies
http://torrentfreak.com/copyright-th...hdrawn-091021/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/s...al/8317952.stm
http://alyankovic.wordpress.com/the-gaga-saga/
and that doesn't include the 100s of videos that have the audio scrubbed automatically by youtube because it includes "their" music.
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There is a big difference between writing something that might have a few derivative elements and copying something word for word.
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not when your talking about free speech
weather you change one word or 100 the right to be able to make that free expression is still the prevailing principle.
arguing you have a right to take away that free expression based on a word count is censorship plain and simple.