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You are a musician, and you just cut your first CD. You aren't
exactly rolling in money, but it great to be able to pay your bills
again after years of struggling to make ends meet. You still have
$50,000 in student loans from college, and it sure will be nice to pay
them off and feel free to just concentrate on your music.
There is one problem, though. Suddenly you are becoming aware that your music is out there, in clips in online music stores to entice customers, but also on MP3s from sources like Orangecord and Kaboom that haven't even paid you for your work; they are giving it away for free. Now you've have gotten an email from some kids who want to use music off your album in a multimedia presentation they're making for school. It's nice to be asked, but you have some concerns, and you need answers.
Use these sites below to find the answers to your questions. Then take your answers to the meeting of your group Artists Protecting Art.
Great General Information, Vocabulary, and a Quiz - Find Out What You Know (http://www.copyrightkids.org/)
Basic Answers to Simple Questions (http://www.cyberbee.com/cb_copyright.swf)
Copyright and Fair Use (http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter7/7-c.html)
Examples of Copyright Cases (http://www.benedict.com/)
Myths of Copyright and Fair Use (http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html)
What Teachers Need to Know about Fair Use and a Great Chart (http://home.earthlink.net/~cnew/research.htm#EXAMPLES%20OF%20WORKS)
Sharing Music Files http://www.legal-database.com/file-sharing.htm
News Article http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/21/PIRACY.TMP
There is one problem, though. Suddenly you are becoming aware that your music is out there, in clips in online music stores to entice customers, but also on MP3s from sources like Orangecord and Kaboom that haven't even paid you for your work; they are giving it away for free. Now you've have gotten an email from some kids who want to use music off your album in a multimedia presentation they're making for school. It's nice to be asked, but you have some concerns, and you need answers.
1.
Can you say "No!" to these kids, or do they have some sort of
rights to use your music without your permission?
2. How much of it can they use? All the songs on the CD? All of one song?
3. What are they allowed to do with this multimedia presentation once they've made it? Can they burn lots of disks and sell them? Give them away? Post them on the web?
4. Can they take part of your song and record it into their own music? Distort it so it sounds neat? Make fun of it?
5. Do they have to put your name on it or can they just use it and never mention you at all?
6. If the kids in school can do stuff with your music, can everybody else do the same thing? Are there different laws for different uses? Are Kaboom and Orangecord allowed to just give your music away on the Internet? What can you do about that?
2. How much of it can they use? All the songs on the CD? All of one song?
3. What are they allowed to do with this multimedia presentation once they've made it? Can they burn lots of disks and sell them? Give them away? Post them on the web?
4. Can they take part of your song and record it into their own music? Distort it so it sounds neat? Make fun of it?
5. Do they have to put your name on it or can they just use it and never mention you at all?
6. If the kids in school can do stuff with your music, can everybody else do the same thing? Are there different laws for different uses? Are Kaboom and Orangecord allowed to just give your music away on the Internet? What can you do about that?
Use these sites below to find the answers to your questions. Then take your answers to the meeting of your group Artists Protecting Art.
Great General Information, Vocabulary, and a Quiz - Find Out What You Know (http://www.copyrightkids.org/)
Basic Answers to Simple Questions (http://www.cyberbee.com/cb_copyright.swf)
Copyright and Fair Use (http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter7/7-c.html)
Examples of Copyright Cases (http://www.benedict.com/)
Myths of Copyright and Fair Use (http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html)
What Teachers Need to Know about Fair Use and a Great Chart (http://home.earthlink.net/~cnew/research.htm#EXAMPLES%20OF%20WORKS)
Sharing Music Files http://www.legal-database.com/file-sharing.htm
News Article http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/21/PIRACY.TMP