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Old 2008.07.28, 03:48 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by ringomaster View Post
Most of those rules are utter bollocks anyway, half of them are totally unenforceable in law.

"Unfortunately, even imitations of Sheena Ringo songs violate their copyrights."

No they fucking don't.
I think they violate, at least, the lyrics copyrights.
However, lyrics are something more important in Japan, afaik, especially when dealing with karaoke and such. I don't know if it is such a serious business in the west, since covers are such a normal thing...

EDIT
I found this in Wikipedia:
Legally, songs may only be copied or performed publicly by permission of the authors. The legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or otherwise transferred. This is governed by copyright law. Songwriting and publishing royalties can be a substantial source of income, particularly if a song becomes a hit record.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songwriting

A peculiar example, also found in Wikipedia:
"Feeling Good" (aka Feelin' Good) is a song written by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse for the 1965 musical The Roar of the Greasepaint—the Smell of the Crowd and since covered by several artists, including Muse.
(...)
The Muse version was used by Nescafé for their advertising, but without the band's permission. Nescafé replaced it with the Nina Simone version. Muse were subsequently paid settlement money, which they donated to Oxfam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeling_good

Last edited by ShinjiPG : 2008.07.28 at 04:10 AM.
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