Is it legal to ‘give away’ a CD of mixed songs as a ‘gift’ for donating to a scholarship?
Query by Stepnie: Is it legal to ‘give away’ a CD of mixed songs as a ‘gift’ for donating to a scholarship?
I am organizing an occasion that will solicit donations to a college scholarship plan. The plan has existed for 40 years. We had been taking into consideration performing a ‘retrospective’ CD of songs representing the past 40 many years and giving it away to donors at or above a specified degree. (i.e. Donate $ 25 or a lot more, get a free CD)
I know we cannot just sell the CD’s due to copyrights and so on. Is it also difficulty with this scenario, as a present?
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Answer by Freddy
If you already purchased them I’m pretty confident it really is legal.
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it would be regarded as copyright infringement.
No, you don’t own the rights to the music and are committing copy right infringement
You need to write a letter to the copyright holder of the song and ask for thier permission to use it
well if you bought the songs yes, it is legal. but if the songs are torrents…you probably shouldn’t give it away.
If you do not own the copyright to the music you are giving away, then it is considered piracy. This is what got Napster shut down when they were a free service.
You would have to ask ASCAP or BMI for permission and pay a fee. Anything else is copyright infrigement.
You are allowed to make ONE copy of music you buy for ARCHIVE purposes.
It doesn’t matter if it.s non-profit. It doesn’t matter what your intentions are. Read the copyright on any music CD: Redistribution of a copyrighted work, in whole or in part, is prohibited and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
No one seems to get this simple fact, infringement is RAMPANT, yet everyone whines about the RIAA being “greedy.”
So the answer is no, no, no, no. Redistribution in any form is copyright infringement.
It is NOT legal.
The only way to make it legal is to contact the artists or labels that carry the artists who’s music you are putting on the CD, and obtain their permission to use the song on the CD.
MANY (though certainly not all) will agree to allow a song of theirs to be used for free or a small fee (though some company’s idea of small differs from others) as long as the number of CDs is limited to a predetermined number.
In all honesty….the hard part is getting ahold of the right people to obtain that permission. That can take weeks or even months for a person who doesn’t already have the contacts established to accomplish. Believe me….I’ve tried to obtain permission rights for using music in a video I wanted to submit to sundance. NOT EASY.
By copying them, you have already violated the Copyright laws. Dispensing them (free or otherwise) is still illegal.
it’s illegal … whatever reason you have