Is it stealing if its on paper?
Published November 25, 2003
In addition, while more often than not people claim a "fair use" copying incorrectly, fair use is a valid concept necessary to allow the criticism of copyrighted works and their creators through examples. But please read more about it before you do it.
(posted on: Lifted from Brad)
As of this post we still have no concrete answer. Even though this is school related technically what we are doing is not directly for educational purposes and we are not reporting we are listing. We could simply list the names of the songs that made the top ten list but we want to list the lyrics in order to show, from our findings, specifically why they made the list which is the point of our survey in the first place; the why not the what. The jury is still out on our dilemma, we emailed the Music Publishers Association to get a concrete answer. I still thought this post would be helpful to some, bon apetit.
- Is it stealing if its on paper?
- Published: November 25, 2003
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Dew, for some really interesting reading about copyrights, check out John Oswald and Plunderphonics. He created music from other artists work but did so in a way that only accentuated the gifts that made these songs so popular in the first place. He got his butt sued off by a number of record labels and essentially went into hiding with the aid of Negativland and their record label Seeland. What makes this so interesting is that he is doing something that, essentially, celebrates the music the artists made in the first place. He makes no attempt to disguise his sources, but the end product is so artistic and meaningful, not to mention often humorous, that it's hard to believe a band would get upset about it. Maybe they didn't, but their labels sure did. This could put an interesting spin on your work.