song rip-offs

[shogunlegend]

a lot of you post stuff on the internet and it makes me wonder what you would do if one day you heard your stuff being played by someone else? i don't mean like people playing purple haze or crazy train covers either, but being ripped off for your ideas? do you copyright your stuff first or just hope you don't get ripped off? do you have any reservations about posting or any experiences like that?

 

[emilio]

Re: song rip-offs

my mom always tells me not to show my stuff for that same reason. i don't do it not because i don't want to but because i don't know how to. i don't think it's right to rip other people off and i wouldn't feel like a musician because it is not from me. so i wouldn't do it without the person's consent. i just hope nobody take nothing from me.

 

[CGord]

Re: song rip-offs

Where would I hear it? Online? In that case, I could just e-tear them a new one. On the radio? A professional ripping me off? I'd get my 15 minutes of fame during the lawsuit, & try to at least get my house paid off.

I'm not concerned with it. If you rip off my stuff, you're a really ****ty writer.

 

[hareek]

Re: song rip-offs

any of my music i make available to others is copyrighted.

 

[emilio]

Re: song rip-offs

Where would I hear it? Online? In that case, I could just e-tear them a new one. On the radio? A professional ripping me off? I'd get my 15 minutes of fame during the lawsuit, & try to at least get my house paid off.

I'm not concerned with it. If you rip off my stuff, you're a really ****ty writer.

lol. and yeah. where the musicianship in that? i would not consider that person a real musician. (unless it is a tribute or a sincere casualty) it is another one of the laws of the guitar gods.

 

[RW James]

Re: song rip-offs

Essentially any work you post is copyrighted when its posted. Of course, what would happen in court is anybody's guess.

In reality - if anyone considers my work good enough to steal: go for it, I would be honored. There's more where that came from.

But after that, I would be more careful about copyrighting.

 

[StrangeSound]

Re: song rip-offs

I'm also afraid that this could happen.. I've put a ton if stuff online in the past..lots of it was/is junk but some pieces were/are decent. My Soundclick site has almost 90 songs..and I cleaned the site some months ago..should do it again.

The safest thing would be to play over popular backing tracks but in my case I never had the urge to steal a song that I heared by somebody on the internet. That doesn't mean the songs weren't good but I could not do it.