music copyright laws?
408713
You just directly look for which music production company the artist's songs were sold in your country, is it IMG or Sony or BMG or other company?. Then find the company's name and contacts and then ask them how can you buy the copyright? There are a certain fee and taxes that you should pay for that.
162245
Yes. All music you buy from a (repuitable) source has DRM, Digital Rights Management. Meaning that you can that you can only have them on a set number of computers and use them on specific devices.
968392
Do not listen to those other people in what they responded. They have no clue. First of all, if it is a product (not like music etc..) you may want to seek PATENT protection, not copyright protection. Go get a couple hundred bucks and go speak to a PATENT ATTORNEY. You are going to have to pay for a professional opinion, one way or another.
679953
This is typically called licensing. Since the Yahoo! TOS has a strict policy against posting commercial sites, I'm not able to provide links. However, just do an online search for "music licensing."\n\nI posted a couple sites that will help you with this too.\n\nHope that helps!
416401
Can you be sued...YES.  Will you be sued, probably not.  Especially as you are "listening and deleting".  The music industry is mainly after those who are file sharing songs without paying the cost of the production for the album/CD they were on originally.
185806
The RIAA may not own the rights to the songs and thus may not be able to sue you, but that doesn't magically make it legal.  It's still just as illegal, you're just less likely to get caught.
1073789
Don't know about legal, just use limewire or bearshare.
49928
If the lyrics have a current copyright (which is likely for anything less than a hundred years old), and you don't have the permission of the copyright holder, you are in violation of copyright law.\n\nHere is a link to FAQ's from the US Copyright Office:
51657
It is not illegal. Sharing music, is not and should not be illegal.
645154
Look for OMD's (online music distributors). On the following page you will find links to 3 sites with huge tables comparing them.\nhttp://baseportal.com/baseportal/goodsounds/howto\nAlso consider to release them under a Creative Commons license.
579305
In the US, there are no rules or regulations regarding musical lyrics, only laws restricting what can be broadcast on the airwaves or performed in a public space.  If you wish to write & perform a song called "**** my **** you ******* ****" in your own home, you are free to do so.
1100417
No you are violating the copyright if you download the song from the web even if you already own the song in another format.\n\nHowever, it is generally accepted that copyright "fair use" allows one to make one backup copy of a work already owned.  So if you make a backup copy of the cassette to your computer you are probably OK.
1178810
The program itself is legal. However, you can do illegal things with it, like download music and burn it on CDs and distribute that. But the program itself is legal.
275457
I don't think there's anything LEGAL (correct me if I'm wrong) but www.audiostore.ru is legal and only $0.10 per song, with a pretty good selection (roughly 500,000).\n\nhttp://www.audiostore.ru
426609
I should only become an issue if you sell them, or download them.... Since you already own all the music, and copied them and burnt them, and are giving them away for FREE you should have no problems....\n\nCongrats, and best wishes to you.
555654
Try researching a bit of copyright law..\n\nIncidentally, not all music downloads are illegal, there's a great deal of live recordings available, and many bands and artists are all for this as it stops bootleggers making a profit.
7677
iTunes, Napster, or Music Match.  All fast reliable and legal.  All music is at some level copy written material.  The band saying it is free doesn't make it so.  They have to jump thru a lot of hoops to give up all their rights so always take care getting music "for free".