Help with copywrite Laws...
I would like to make my own arrangement for the song Concerning Hobbits by Howard Shore... I would like to make the arrangement for profit and I wounder how about I am to do this (What websites, what copyright stuff etx.) thanks...
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No one here can give legal advice. You can search google and then talk to an entertainment lawyer.
You need to find out who owns the copyright to the original, or which organisation represents them (usually the publisher) and contact them to ask permission. You may want to send them an extract of the arrangement so they can see if it is any good, otherwise they will probably ignore the request or reject it out of hand.
Remember, you don't need permission to make an arrangement as long as you keep it private. You do need permission to publish, perform or sell it. Making it publicly available online (even for free) counts as publishing.
In reply to You need to find out who… by shoogle
Much more helpful than my response.
In reply to You need to find out who… by shoogle
Thanks... I can't seem to find who would own the copyright... Would it be Howard Shore or the Tolkien Estate or the publishing group which published the song for the TOlkien Foundation and Howard Shore
In reply to Thanks... I can't seem to… by Gaslex24
I would contact the publisher.
In reply to I would contact the… by mike320
Thanks, but just before you sent this email Musicnotes.com contacted me with all the info I need...
In reply to You need to find out who… by shoogle
My Birthday today. Querious, Does making an arrangement and uploading to MuseScore legal as it is not public?
In reply to My Birthday today. Querious,… by dannsh13
Happy Birthday!
It's OK to upload if the score is kept private. If it's unlisted that's OK too as long as you don't publish the link anywhere public.
If the score is public on MuseScore.com then that counts as publishing and requires permission from the copyright holder. Fortunately, MuseScore.com has already negotiated with many music publishers to get this permission on your behalf, so in many cases you can indeed upload arrangements and make them public on MuseScore.com without having to ask anybody first. Unfortunately, there isn't a list anywhere of which works are allowed and which ones aren't, so your best bet is to look on the website to see what other people have uploaded. If it's not allowed then it will have been taken down or made private so you can no longer see it.
In reply to Happy Birthday! If the score… by shoogle
If it's unlisted that's OK too as long as you don't publish the link anywhere public.
That doesn't prevent it from being made private by musescore.com though, happened to me quite a few times.
If it's not allowed then it will have been taken down or made private so you can no longer see it.
not taken down, but made private. And you can still see it (but only you)
In reply to If it's unlisted that's OK… by Jojo-Schmitz
I was referring to scores uploaded by other people. If you uploaded it then, yes, you would indeed be the only one able to see it.
In reply to I was referring to scores… by shoogle
Sure, I was just trying to clarify ;-)