Horrible Karaoke of Really Old Song: Monetizable?

Munchito696

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I recorded some guy doing a HORRIBLE version of Charlie Brown a few months back, I'm wondering if this violates any copyright rules to monetize it.... Any info on this? I'm pretty sure the people who created the song are dead, so I don't know how any royalties or anything works for this.
 
Th3StuffShow said:
Horrible or not, the song is copyrighted, so technically it would be infringement.
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Do you know how people work out giving royalties or whatever to the people who own the song? I know Psy allowed people to do versions of Gangnam Style and both the people who did theirs and Psy got money from it.
 
Th3StuffShow said:
Horrible or not, the song is copyrighted, so technically it would be infringement.
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Plus if it's just some guy who didn't give you permission you're violating 3 rights here.

1. Copyright of the composer of the song.

2. Personal right of the guy who didn't give you permission to post a video of him.

3. Copyright of the guy cause he has the copyright to his performance.[DOUBLEPOST=1369420741,1369420587][/DOUBLEPOST]
Munchito696 said:
Do you know how people work out giving royalties or whatever to the people who own the song?
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You contact them, negotiate a deal, and pay them which ever amount they want from you. (Which still only takes care of point number 1.)
 
Munchito696 said:
I just found something that said 70 as well. It also says the heirs.... What about the heirs' heirs?
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The life of the heirs, the heirs' heirs and the heirs of the heirs' heirs doesn't matter, they are just the ones managing the copyright during those 70 years.
 
Th3StuffShow said:
You have to be careful with this. Often corporations and other people buy the rights when the owner dies.
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^This...
And you have to remember that multiple peoples rights are involved...

Beethoven's compositions are public domain, anyone can use them, but I can't go out and record an orchestra playing Beethoven and publish this recording. That would violate the rights of the orchestra. Same in this case, you'd also need permission by the performer.

There can also be different owners of the music and the lyrics. I ran into this when I wanted to use carol of the bells for my advent calendar video. The lyrics are still copyrighted, but the music is older and is public domain, so I used a (horrible) acapella-la-lalala-version, that I "sang" myself. (And researching the whole copyright situation of that one song probably cost me more time than researching all the Christmas facts for the calendar...)
 
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