Please, you are on the net, do a search for 'music copyright' for whatever country you are in.
For Australia grab this
http://www.copyright.org.au/G012.pdf
Just a part from the above pdf.
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What are your rights as an owner of copyright?
If you own copyright in a musical work or lyrics, you are generally the only person who can:
• reproduce it: for example, by recording a performance of it, photocopying it, copying it by hand, or scanning
it onto a computer disk;
• make it public for the first time;
• perform it in public;
• communicate it to the public (including via radio, television and the internet);
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• translate it (for lyrics); or
• arrange or transcribe it (for music).
If you own copyright in a sound recording, you are generally the only person who can make copies of the
recording, or perform it, cause it to be communicated to the public or rent it out.
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In the music industry, the following terms are often used:
• mechanical right: refers to the right to record a song onto record, cassette or compact disc;
• synchronisation right: refers to the right to use music on a soundtrack of a film or video; and
• performing rights: refers to the rights to perform in public and to otherwise communicate the work to the
public.
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Now you can debate the rights and wrongs of the law all you like, but you cannot change the fact that, at this moment, it is law.
If you actually read what he's saying, he's not uploading it for anyone to download and use. Your analogy doesn't work.
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It does and it is exactly the same, anyone can download these videos and separate the sound track, viola, they now have a copy of the music.
Now please there is plenty of public domain music available, use that and do the right thing, and I am surprised to see creators prepared to break copyright after all the debate about content theft .
Cheers David (who feels like he is banging his head against a double brick wall)
