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[Ultimate Dj]

Hello,
I'm just wondering if some melodies are patented. Like take a piano riff of No One or Axel F or Around The World or Linkin Park...etc can i take those notes and play them in my owns song without haveing to buy a copy right or something?
Basically I want to do my own Remix of a lot of songs and I wanna no if its legal.
thnx


pura vida
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[EJ2]

You mean like the Chiffon's, "He's So Fine" being lifted by George Harrison in, "My Sweet Lord"? He didn't ask permission, so he got successfully sued- http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/mysweet.htm

If it's for your own private purpose, I don't see a problem. However, if you intend to go commercial with your work, you could find yourself in court defending against a plagiarism suit. That's my reading of it.
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[RiotNrrd]

Basically I want to do my own Remix of a lot of songs and I wanna no if its legal.

Without getting the permission of the artist(s) first, it is not legal.

For your own personal noncommercial use, the artists are unlikely to come after you. Very unlikely. So you can probably go ahead and remix to your hearts content as long as it's clearly a hobby. But if you start selling anything, without the aforementioned permission, it's an entirely different story and could realistically land you in a whole vat full of trouble.

[Synthoid]

[Ultimate Dj]

[xmlguy]

You be smokin too much ganja, mon. So your plan for fame and fortune is to steal music from other people and hope they don't find out? How you like it if I remix all your remixes, and give them away for free?

[JonSolo]

If you plan to sell or distribute music that contains a sample, you must acquire permission from the artist as well as those who own the rights to the recording (i.e Vivendi, Warner, etc).

If you plan to remake the music yourself, either in part or as a whole, and you plan to distribute it WHETHER YOU SELL THE PRODUCT OR NOT you need to contact the Harry Fox Agency http://www.harryfox.com/index.jsp to discuss and determine what mechanical rights are involved. The only way to bypass this is to directly negotiate with the "publishers" of the music.

The Publisher owns the right to the song and/or parts of the songs. They can determine, for example, if they want a phrase from their song to be used as a central part of a hip-hop song or not.

Let's look at two examples.

1. You have a line in your song that repeats "Party like it's 1999". You give this song away for FREE, but without the Publisher's permission or licensing. Prince can come back and sue you for damages, and if he don't Warner Brothers will.

2. You include the "famous" five notes from Close Encounters of the Third Kind in a song. Again you distribute this for FREE without permission. You can be sued by the holder of the rights to that song. Likely this is some bigger entity than John Williams.

If you think that they won't or can't find out, trust me when I say that they have bots that scour the Internet on sites such as Google looking for the very thing that I just mentioned. This does not mean that you WILL get caught. But if someone turned you in, it is guaranteed.

A local club just got shut down because they held Karaoke and did not pay ASCAP royalties. I have never heard of a club that ACTUALLY paid royalties, but someone busted on this club and it got shut down and only reopened with piped in music. They won't even do a live band.

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[Peter Paul]

Hello DJ,

Why don't you do classical music arrangements? Nobody will sue you for that. All classical music made 70 plus years ago is in public domain. If you do it right your audience will go nuts.
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[Ultimate Dj]

[Peter Paul]

Doing classical music arrangements does not mean doing classical music per say, so do not worry if you don't do it/like it yet. Doing classical music arrangements is totaly different experience and has very little in common with playing original classical music except basic melody or tune. You take basic melody and arrange it in whatever genre you like it to fit. Choices are infinite and process of doing it very addictive. If you know structural format of the genres you want to arrange song in, all you need is piano or organ. However, if you have good kb arranger, it is an excellent tool with its endless choices of styles and there is virtually no limit in terms what you can do with certain classical song. Of course, you also need chorded songs. Fortunately, there are tons of them readily available.
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"Music is a higher revelation
than all wisdom and philosophy.
Music is the electrical soil
in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents."
~ Ludwig van Beethoven ~

[Ultimate Dj]