posting cover songs

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I was going to post a few of my guitars on line to show how they sound. But before I did I seen a video on how they are cracking down on cover songs, and as of soon, they are going to start fining people a lot of money for posting songs even if they are for teaching purposes.

 So, now I am wondering what if I post something I made up and someone says it sounds to close to one of their songs... Hum...

So here is my questions... What do you think? Is this getting out of hand?

I know I can't afford a $25,000 fine. I seen where one guy was taken to court over using chords that was in a song. He won his case, but lost time in court. I mean come on we have to use chords to make music... LOL!

All of the videos out there right now according to the video I seen on this can be fined up to $25,000 US per song. WOW! This is nothing but greed in a big form. I feel if this happens this will destroy the way we teach and demo things on line.

EB

[antares]

First reaction is a sense of greed. Second reaction is to wonder how much of the fine goes to the artist? Wait a minute- doesn't YouTube have it in their Ts&Cs that they assume ownership of uploaded content vis-a-vis "the recording" (because they couldn't override intellectual property rights so easily.) Then I thought that it's reasonable for "artists" to make some coin for their efforts. Then I thought "greed" again. Where's the balance then? When will common sense prevail? When will lawyers actually justify the money they generate from the misfortunes of ordinary folk? How many dependents will be able to reap what their descendants sowed and avoid having to work for themselves for a crust or two? Janie, amongst many others I'm thinking of you. Then I thought of greed again. I keep coming back to greed. Greed.

I'll hang my hat on an abstract from the International Declaration On Human Rights. It has no legal standing but in my idealistic little world, morals will eventually triumph over laws. I am paraphrasing it but it goes along the lines of <each citizen has the right to seek, impart or retrieve information regardless of the media it is publicised on>. I'm sure Google can turn that into a quote- if they haven't copyrighted it!

e&oe ...

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Nov 26, 2019 11:30:37 GMT -6 antares said:

First reaction is a sense of greed. Second reaction is to wonder how much of the fine goes to the artist? Wait a minute- doesn't YouTube have it in their Ts&Cs that they assume ownership of uploaded content vis-a-vis "the recording" (because they couldn't override intellectual property rights so easily.) Then I thought that it's reasonable for "artists" to make some coin for their efforts. Then I thought "greed" again. Where's the balance then? When will common sense prevail? When will lawyers actually justify the money they generate from the misfortunes of ordinary folk? How many dependents will be able to reap what their descendants sowed and avoid having to work for themselves for a crust or two? Janie, amongst many others I'm thinking of you. Then I thought of greed again. I keep coming back to greed. Greed.

I'll hang my hat on an abstract from the International Declaration On Human Rights. It has no legal standing but in my idealistic little world, morals will eventually triumph over laws. I am paraphrasing it but it goes along the lines of <each citizen has the right to seek, impart or retrieve information regardless of the media it is publicised on>. I'm sure Google can turn that into a quote- if they haven't copyrighted it!

e&oe ...

You Tube is changing things. The video I seen was on You Tube! I know not too long ago that a lot of these things were kicked out of court. For the reason of some kind of right of usage law here in the US. But now they are swaying back on the copy right law. That in it self is all over the place here.

 I use to have to do copy right thing for schools and school teachers. I use to work for the schools in AZ. But school teachers can use copy righted stuff up to 30 students after that they had to have approval. But I was dealing with teachers of the school district and not someone making a video on how to play a cover song. To me any law out there have so many loop holes. Someone can and do take it laws way out of proportions and they go after too many people that are just trying to make a living.

 But like you, I can't help but come back to greed.

EB