Copyright claims on my COVER

[Gabriel]

Claims can be made from the composition of the song, too.

 

[Tarmack]

Actually when it's a cover, it's its own piece of content free from the original. My own interpretation be it the same or different is something that I have preformed myself. So copyright there doesn't apply.

You need to do more research, because you are several orders of magnitude incorrect.

 

[LyfeWithDragons]

Actually when it's a cover, it's its own piece of content free from the original. My own interpretation be it the same or different is something that I have preformed myself. So copyright there doesn't apply.

It'd be different if it were a parody.

 

[R A Jones]

If you're using someone else's work without the copyright holders permission, even if it's a cover or your own interpretation, you're still breaching a copyright law.
Even if you put a disclaimer stating you don't own the piece, it won't get you around it, it will just show you're giving the credit to the original owner which can be completely disregarded.

 

[katysbeautychannel]

In the Youtube world (which is where you're producing your content), covers are very much a no-no. Unless you are with a network who has licensing for certain songs, you can't post covers of them to Youtube and expect not to get into trouble for it.

You -can- post a parody of a song, though.

Google is its own entity. It doesn't matter what the rules in the real world are. If you break the Google rules (like posting a cover of a copyrighted song), you get punished hard for it.

 

[Lime Cake Music]

Yes it can be hard for a cover musician on Youtube sometimes. Although some of our uploaded covers on Youtube gets identified as a cover and we get to monetize them, suddenly there's no copyright issue anymore. Well I guess that depends on the record company as well since for instance both of our Imagine Dragons covers are monetized while few others are.

 

[MarkRodriguez2012]

Kinda makes me wish Beiber got slammed with copyright when he first started out singing on YT. We never would have had to deal with him.