Infringing Copyrights RE: [Ansteorra] looking for song

[Phelippe Descors]

In a nutshell: if you publish something and it has a general copyright 
(IE: only states "Copywrite: Jane Doe, 2004") and you give credit to the 
origional owner without permision you might get in trouble.  Depends on 
the copywrite holder and if you are making a profit off of it.  If it 
has something to the like of "No duplications without expressed 
permission....." or similar wording then don't do anything with it until 
you meet the criteia that the copyright warning states.

Now I really can't say anything about filking copyrighted material.  
Though I do know that you must change something like 15% of the 
material, like keeping the same music but changing the lyrics.  FYI, 
Wierd Al Yankovic has songs out there that he asked to make parodies of 
and the origional songwriters said no and he was able to get away with 
it anyway due to the amount of changes he made to them.

    Phelippe

L T wrote:

>It is amazing how quickly you can infringe a copyright and get in legal trouble for it (from what I understand someone sued the Girl Scouts for copying sheet music for around the fire sing-a-longs)...just the act of filking something can open up a can of worms...
> 
>Will anyone who is in the know...please...give us a rundown on how to keep OUT of trouble copyrightwise while still sharing music.
> 
>Lorraine DeerSlayer
> 
>
>"C. L. Ward" <gunnora at vikinganswerlady.com> wrote:
>Mahee reports:
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>
>>Sadly that is not their belief up here
>>in AnTir. One can find it for sale at
>>events in both CD and Text form.
>>    
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>
>Even more sadly, that would be theft, as Master Ivar Battleskald
>owns the copyright and has the sole right to determine how the
>work may be distributed. Unless Ivar has specifically authorized
>people to sell or record it, they're stealing from him by
>violating his copyright.
>
>::GUNNVOR::
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>


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