[linux-audio-user] Re: Legalities

[Lee Revell]

On 3/11/07, Kjetil S. Matheussen <k.s.matheussen at notam02.no> wrote:
>
> Bob van der Poel:
> >
> >
> > Anyone know much about the legalities of posting music recorded by
> > oneself, but written by someone else? I put up a few recordings on my
> > web site, mostly as a demo of MMA ... but I got to wondering the other
> > day if some nice lawyer is going to be knocking on my door? I'm not too
> > worried since I do live in Canada, and the server is <somewhere in
> > Europe>. But, still ... one has to wonder.
> >
>
> I don't know the laws, but I would be extremely surprised if this is
> illegal in Europe.
>

Why?  This is how copyright law has always worked.  You write a song,
you get to charge people royalties to perform it.

Lee