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Copyrights on Standards
Copyrights on Standards
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Vito
3 posts
Jan 08, 2011
8:13 AM
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Some film students want to use some songs I recorded as the soundtrack for the movie they are shooting. I also will perform in the movie. I recorded the standards: Shake'em On Down, I Feel Like Goin Home, Rollin and Tumblin, Ragged and Dirty, Goin Down Slow, Country Boy, 3 AM, Me and The Devil Blues, The Things I Used To Do, and Shame, Shame, Shame. They plan on entering the movie in film festivals across the country.
Is there any copyright problems with my version of these songs coming out in the movie?
I thought they were standards and were public domain. Is it a hassle to get the copyrights?
Where do I got to check?
I play slide guitar with harmonica rack and my version of the songs are my own, I believe. I just basically keep the melody of the vocals, the rest I just wing it.
Thank you.
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Vito
4 posts
Jan 08, 2011
10:02 AM
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Woa, hadn't heard about that site. I'm searchin...
Thanks.
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jim
668 posts
Jan 08, 2011
10:07 AM
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fuck copyrights, that's your playing. Your copyright.
and damn - USE VIMEO!! They are much more sane about this matter.
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nacoran
3603 posts
Jan 08, 2011
11:32 AM
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Jim, that's not good advice, regardless how you feel on copyright issues. The author of the work has a copyright to the material. It can get you sued, and although it's a pain in the butt, there are other ways around the problem that don't get you sued. Of course, you also have a copyright on the individual recordings. In the confusing world of copyright you could have this situation:
Someone rights a poem. (They have a copyright to the words)
Someone sets it to music. (They have a copyright on the music)
Someone records it. (They have a copyright on the recording)
Someone else rerecords it. (They have a copyright on that recording.) They change the words. (They now have a copyright on the word change.)
Someone records it with new music. (They now have a copyright on the new music.)
You want to record it! You want to use the changed words, so you have to get permissions from both the original and the secondary author. You want to use the original music except on the chorus, where you want to use the new version. You need both of their consent! And if you sample the vocal or guitar from one of them and the sample runs over the 5 second mark, you need to pay! Copyright lasts 120 years from publishing or 70 years after the death of the author (which is usually the last man standing from the band).
Just because something is a standard doesn't mean it's public domain.
Breakdown of Copyrights (US)
There are people who release under open licences, like Creative Commons Licences, and often that generates lots of other secondary exposure, like getting into movies!
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