I guess this would count as performance and clearly is an infringement
of copyright law.
IMHO copyright (in the US) has very good intensions but it's a law that
is hard to follow and is contradictional to common sense and habits.
I'm lucky not to live in the US but in switzerland with a more liberal
(and practical) understanding of copyright. An arrangement as Tom did
would count as "fair use" (http://www.copyright.ch/?sub_id=47&leng=0),
offering it on his webpage would be an infringement of the copyright
(http://www.copyright.ch/?sub_id=72&leng=0) while offering it using a
password protected service like myDrive.ch with a limited number of
users would be legal.
I think the latter would be illegal in the US. As well as the
"performance" Wolfgang mentions.
Thomas
Am 21.10.2010 13:41, schrieb wolfgang wiehe:
what´s about singing this song on a public place (toilette)?
is this copyright infringement?
;-)
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-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Datum: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:36:46 +0200
Von: "anthony.chalkley"<anthony.chalk...@orange.fr>
An: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Betreff: [LUTE] Re: In My Life Copyright Issue What is Copyright Infringement?
Shouldn't worry too much Tom. Yoko didn't even know Lennon would have been
70 this year - can't imagine she knows any of the songs she didn't howl
on....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guitar& Lute"<guitarandl...@earthlink.net>
To:<t...@heartistrymusic.com>
Cc:<lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 1:27 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: In My Life Copyright Issue What is Copyright
Infringement?
Hi Tom,
Just to help you out here since apparantly you have your idea of what
copyright law is, here is a link and a quote from the US copyright
office.
"What is copyright infringement?
As a general matter, copyright infringement occurs when a copyrighted
work is reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly displayed, or
made into a derivative work without the permission of the copyright
owner."
See it yourself,
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-definitions.html
Allan
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