I know it's not legal to use the original version of a song without permission. But, is it legal to do a cover version or parody of a song without permission?
Not everyone honors copyright. Not everyone does the rightSo everyone on YT who do covers get permission?
I'm not thinking about the people who don't get views but more of YT partners who get ad revenue off their videos?
How does that work for them.
Not everyone honors copyright. Not everyone does the right
thing. In fact, most people freely and even proudly violate the
copyright of composers all the time.
I wish I knew how someone can get ad revenue on YT by violating
the right to copy.
Weird Al (Parody King), from what I understand, still gets permission from the artists in question before he parodies their songs-even if he doesn't "have to"
And yea, the YT phenomenon. Its misinformed a generation of people as to Copyright law: People seem to think that by using the music, and then saying in the description "This is not my music, I don't have rights to it," ect gets them off the hook-um no it doesn't.
Nice of you to say that-but you still used the song/footage without permission and are liable for such.
I'm pretty sure that here, a cover is fine as long as you always cite the real author, and don't use it for commercial purposes..
Even on your side of the Atlantic the right to copy is in the handsI'm pretty sure that here, a cover is fine as long as you always cite the real author, and don't use it for commercial purposes.
However, I'm not sure how it works on your side of the Atlantic.
Parodies of songs is a very slippery issue. The lyrics are usually quite different, so there is not a significant issue with copyrights.
The music is a whole different issue. Weird Al asked for permission because he had to; he was copying the exact arrangement and production for many of his parodies.
You can get around the music copyrights issue by making "significant" changes to the music. It's a very subjective thing; it can be as little as one note in a musical riff. Production values are a different issue, and not one easily resolved, especially now with digital musical instrument libraries and, of course, preset sounds on hardware and software synths and samplers.
BTW, back in the '80's no one said "No" to Weird Al Yankovic; to be parodied by him was a very high honor, almost a status symbol. In fact, when his team contacted Michael Jackson about doing a parody of "Bad" not only was he given permission, MJ allowed Weird Al to use the original sets for the "Bad" music video for his parody "Fat".