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Posted by PTravel on 01/11/06 02:10
"Richard Crowley" <richard.7.crowley@intel.com> wrote in message
news:dq0uf1$ub7$1@news01.intel.com...
> "James" wrote ...
> > If I create original arrangements of songs to use on DVD's of
transferred
> > home movies (selling the service), anyone know the particulars as far as
> > the
> > correct, legal way to do it? How/To whom do you pay royalties/fees?
>
> NOTE: I am not a lawyer and I am not even playing one here on
> this Usenet newsgroup. However this is what I have learned from
> similar situations...
>
> 1) Arrangements...
> If you arrange a song which is protected by copyright, the copyright
> owner automatically owns your arrangement. You cannot publish
> or perform it or distribute recordings of it without their permission.
Well, your answer is half-right. ;)
An arrangement can constitute a protectable work of authorship. It is,
however, a derivative work of the original. Though you would own the
copyright in the arrangement, you couldn't do anything with it that
implicates a protected right, e.g. make a copy, distribute, perform
publicly, etc., without permission of the owner of the copyright of the
underlying work.
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