My middle school is doing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and we want to use the songs from the new movie as our songs. The tickets for the performance will be bought. Will we break infringing a copyright if we buy the songs from itunes and burn them onto a cd and play them during the show
2007-03-07 14:01:57 · 16 answers · asked by popsicle 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
no you are not breaking the law. one popular example is the production grease. every city in north america has a school that puts this on and there has never been a single charge
2007-03-07 15:42:09 · answer #1 · answered by Joe D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically, yes, it is copyright infrigement. But in a case like this, I doubt that anyone will care.
Paying for the music has nothing to do with copyright infrigement. You pay for personal use when you buy the music. Here you are using it in a play that you will charge admission for. If this was broadway, you would have big problems. But they will not be concerned about a middle school trying to raise a little money.
2007-03-07 22:10:03 · answer #2 · answered by Brian G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it isn't illegal as long as you have bought the songs off of iTunes. You can burn songs onto CDs after you buy them on iTunes because you paid for it.
2007-03-07 22:16:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe that is illegal, but you should definitely credit the writers/composers of the songs and the movie. You really have to be careful with copyright laws... they're so confusing sometimes. XP Break a leg!
2007-03-07 22:11:00 · answer #4 · answered by Mika Dahlia 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it is copyright infringement with out a written ok to use it from the copyright holder. not that they will ever know but some A** H**les look for things like that and the fine is BIG.
2007-03-07 22:14:41 · answer #5 · answered by iamslydog44 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not illegal because you pay for the songs, if you used Limewire or Kazaa or others that you do not have to pay for the music, then you would be breaking copyright laws, but iTunes is licensed to sell music online.
2007-03-07 22:12:12 · answer #6 · answered by Namless 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you buy the music and write the names of the artists and songs in the playbill it's good enough, even if you don't put it in the playbill no one is going to sue you. As long as you buy the music it's fine.
2007-03-07 22:14:15 · answer #7 · answered by vampire_kitti 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you will be fine. everyone does it. my high school did it with grease, my middle school did it with annie. and we used a slew of burned songs for our school fashion shows.
if it really concerns you, why not buy the official soundtrack?
2007-03-08 00:42:11 · answer #8 · answered by jean grey 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no that is not breaking the law... Because at my middle school we did the same thing threeweeks ago.
2007-03-07 22:08:45 · answer #9 · answered by 안녕하세요 (｡>‿‿<｡) 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think if you are legally buying the songs it's alright.
2007-03-07 22:07:09 · answer #10 · answered by Fatema 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋