Message 7/13
Date: 07-Feb-08 @ 07:36 AM -
RE: thiefs...
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Join a rights society
Hmmm, well, maybe that's the easiest thing to do in my position... I have always thought that it is unnecesary, but from your replies I see that being ripped off is a somewhat valid threat, at least on a theoretical level
Of course it is a different question how a simple bloke like me (without a huge "back-office" organisation) can even realise that on the other side of the world someone is copying and selling my stuff. (a very remote possibility but... well). Not to mention going to court.
I'll do some research how this is done properly, thanks for the input!
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agreed, i take ideas from songs all the time, but you dont totaly copy, you hear an idea and think, "Thats cool" and kinda copy it if you get me? You work on your own version of it so to speak.. thats unavoidable I guess
yeah, and even if someone takes samples... that should be OK IMO if he does something with it, (cuts it up, distorts to hell, I mean if it's not just a tempo change and copy-paste). By law of course it is considered illegal...
The worst thing is when you "invent" some melody, or chord progression or something, and then you later on realise that someone has done it before in a different context
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Now, this is out of respect for your band mate, so I wouldn't against his wishes, but I wouldn't worry about putting up music myself. I do send most of my work to the library of congress for copyright purposes (I live in the US) and I send multiple tracks on one CD so that I don't have to pay for each song. This is just to be safe.
Well, I think I will check what are the regulations around here (Hungary). Copyright laws around the EU (and especially Eastern-europe) tend to be rather different, eg. I just realised one day that downloading a copyrighted piece of music from the internet is perfecly ok with the law, as long as I do it for my own personal use...