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What if I quote a song or its lyrics? It's best not to quote song lyrics in your books unless you're prepared to get in contact with the original artists or their agents/representatives to get permission. You absolutely must include their consent on thecopyright pageof your book if you ...
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1 has become a year-end tradition for me. 1/2/2025: Court Ruling Kills Net-Neutrality Rules That Were Already Doomed, PCMag I saw the news of this on my way to SFO at the end of holiday family time, then wrote it in the air on our way back to Dulles. 1/3/2025: My 2025 ...
(excluding, by statutory definition, motion picture soundtracks), such as cassette tapes, CDs, or vinyl disks. Thus, for example, a song (the “work”) can be fixed in sheet music (“copies”) or in phonograph disks (“phonorecords”), or both. If a work is prepared over a period ...
To determine ownership for a song created after 1978, go to the Public Catalog web page on the Library of Congress website and carry out a search for the song you want to use. For a song created before 1978, visit the Copyright Public Records Reading Room at the Library of Congress in...
The estate of Randy Wolfe, a member of the band Spirit, claimed copyright infringement against the band Led Zeppelin in 2020. The estate claimed that Led Zeppelin had copied parts of Spirit's song "Taurus" in their song "Stairway to Heaven." The case was finalized in Led Zeppelin's favor...
Thus, for example, a song (the “work”) can be fixed in sheet music (” copies”) or in phonograph disks (” phonorecords”), or both. If a work is prepared over a period of time, the part of the work that is fixed on a particular date constitutes the created work as of that...
So why bother to register your new song with the Library of Congress? Because until such time as it is officially registered as a new work with the LOC, you have some, but not all of the various protections that copyright law provides. ...
A 2005 decision in the 6th District Court in the U.S. held that copying even as few as three consecutive notes could constitute infringement. Other cases have revolved around whether permissions must be obtained for portions of a work that are sampled, for the underlying song or both. Commer...