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Posted by Seth Jackson on 01/11/06 07:45
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:17:58 GMT, "PTravel"
<ptravel@travelersvideo.com> wrote:
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>"Seth Jackson" <a@mindspring.invalid> wrote in message
>news:6l88s1tu9r1mnftgcnof510u8riqvv1tq5@4ax.com...
>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:29:51 -0800, "Richard Crowley"
>> <richard.7.crowley@intel.com> wrote:
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>> >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.
>>
>> This doesn't sound correct to me. You can perform your arrangement of
>> the song wherever you want, and you don't need permission to do it.
>
>Sorry, but that's completely wrong. There is a compulsory license provided
>for recording covers. However, arrangements are derivative works, and the
>right to prepare derivative works is one of the rights reserved to copyright
>owners. If you prepare a derivative work without permission, you cannot
>publicly perform it (another reservered right).
I guess you'd have to define "arrangement". Would it be considered a
new arrangement if were to perform, say, "Johnny B. Goode" with a band
that included a horn section?
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