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joe
65 posts
Aug 24, 2013
6:00 PM
what are we able to do with a song published say in 1948
and then 'renewed' in 1975 as many of the older published
songs are these days

this issue has been on the forum before i think
but i would like some current understanding of it

for example, i hear one of these songs on a video,
can i write it out in harmonic tab and put it on the forum?

how about if i transcribe it into music notation
and add harmonica tab underneath?

how far does 'fair use' go?

crikey, am i creating trouble simply by talking about this
on the forum?

joe
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Last Edited by joe on Aug 24, 2013 6:02 PM
nacoran
7053 posts
Aug 24, 2013
6:56 PM
That's a good question. My understanding is a lot of the tab sites have to get licenses to post tabs for currently copyrighted music. Copyright is a crazy subject. In the U.S. it's been pushed from 5-7 years to life+70 years. How that is supposed to encourage people to write without stifling expression, I'm not sure.

Of course, not everything was written under those rules. Here is a link that may be helpful, although it might just make your head explode instead.

http://www.public.asu.edu/~dkarjala/publicdomain/SearchC-R.html

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joe
66 posts
Aug 24, 2013
9:09 PM
thanks Nacoran

that is a good site


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FMWoodeye
780 posts
Aug 24, 2013
9:25 PM
Don't worry about it. If they don't like it, they'll ask you to cease and desist. If there's no real money involved, it's not a problem.
joe
67 posts
Aug 24, 2013
9:51 PM
yes, FMWoodeye, i thought that
but i was being wary, not only for myself

if i was putting something up for sale i would expect
to have to negotiate rights but not if i am only being
'helpful' on a forum

nevertheless, there has been talk, on this forum and elsewhere about the troubles caused by copyright

this would be the sensible solution
but there has been a lot which is not sensible

just trying to do the right thing in a world which
cannot agree on what is 'fair use'

joe
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