Comment Re:Liabilities for file sharing software? (Score 1) 590
As I understand law (and we had a music professor lecture us on it one day in music class), the fact
that it's public domain means you can make a recording of it and charge people for it, without having to pay royalties to the (long dead) writer. But I really shouldn't go and distribute my copy of the Vienna orhestra playing Bach's Brandenberg(sp?) Concertos because they own that recording. Interestingly enough, according to the same proffesor, if you transcribed a song off the radio, you can legally do whatever you want with it, in other words you could record the song yourself and not pay royalties, of course he (and I) could be wrong on both accounts here.
that it's public domain means you can make a recording of it and charge people for it, without having to pay royalties to the (long dead) writer. But I really shouldn't go and distribute my copy of the Vienna orhestra playing Bach's Brandenberg(sp?) Concertos because they own that recording. Interestingly enough, according to the same proffesor, if you transcribed a song off the radio, you can legally do whatever you want with it, in other words you could record the song yourself and not pay royalties, of course he (and I) could be wrong on both accounts here.
