okay, covers..

[blackmantis1]

What do you guys feel about people doing covers of songs? Just wondering because i do alot of them, is that okay?

Oh well, TO THE HOT AIR BALLOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

[HouseMasta]

At 9/17/06 03:42 PM, blackmantis1 wrote: What do you guys feel about people doing covers of songs? Just wondering because i do alot of them, is that okay?

you can do them, but you CANT post them as it would probably be infringment of the copyright. remember, NG says it has to be your work, not a remake of someone elses

[blackmantis1]

Ahhhh, that sucks man. I have alot of covers posted. Like i redid them and shit. Uh oh, can you get banned for it?

[HouseMasta]

yes

[SpamWarrior]

Covers is murky territory, copyright law wise.

Its your own interpretation of someone elses work.

You are not giving away their actual work, but something based on someone elses work.

Since you're not selling your covers, you're not making money off someone elses work, so in theory its ok.

If you were to try sell a cover without negotiating royalties, you'd leave yourself wide open for a good drilling in a brand new orifice.

in gist, its probably ok, as after all, you're covers can only really promote you and the original artist, no one actually loses out.

Just make sure you credit the original artist or you'll definitely land yourself in the shit for theft of intellectual property.

[HouseMasta]

At 9/17/06 05:40 PM, SadSpoon wrote: Says the king of VG remixes.

wow, my name means something. Take THAT Chronamut! lol

[Khuskan]

Technically its ok, as long as you don't use it for profitable reasons and you credit the origional band. Whats not ok is if you claim their composition to be your own work. You won't get banned for submitting covers, and heck, the VG section is nothing but covers (and jermain submitting to the wrong catagory, ffs), and most of the time, its posotive publicity for the band you covered anyway.

[WinTang]

People COME ON!
There is absolutely no difference in copyright laws between music that is published by records and music that is published via video games.

Once a song has been published, everyone can do a cover of it. You have to pay royalties - i.e. a percentage of the money you make from it - to the publisher. Since you're not making any money here, royalties aren't in question, so go ahead and post the covers.

I know I might be bypassing some sort of administrative formality here, but trust me, no one is going to sue you for putting a cover on Newgrounds. The worst that could (but won't) happen is that someone orders you to have it taken off the site.

[WinTang]

At 9/17/06 06:30 PM, WinTang wrote: People COME ON!

On rereading the thread, that only applied to HouseMasta :)

[HouseMasta]

At 9/17/06 06:32 PM, SadSpoon wrote: but it's still okay to remix other AP artist's work? because everything here is free.

yea but you obviously have to give credit. duh. so say "remix of so and sos" heres their original song [post link]

[blackmantis1]

Oh ok, thats kool then. So if i wanted to do a cover of a gorebastard song thats perfectly fine as long as i discuss it with him??

[speedmetalmessiah]

At 9/17/06 07:25 PM, blackmantis1 wrote: Oh ok, thats kool then. So if i wanted to do a cover of a gorebastard song thats perfectly fine as long as i discuss it with him??

Hell man he'd get a kick out of it I'm sure he'd love to hear somebody take a crack at one of his tunes.

[Grumbleduke]

Oh, not this topic again...

Short answer is yes, so long as you say where the original is from, and don't credit it as your original idea.