My friends and i have started a band and we were thinking of naming it Profit For Profits which are the lyrics to one of Gwar's songs. Can I name my band that?
2007-03-08 13:50:41 · 8 answers · asked by tom s 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Yes you can call yourselves that - there's a long tradition of bands naming themselves after lines form songs from books or films.
Lyrics are copyright but of course you're not taking their lyrics and passing them off as your own.
2007-03-08 13:53:10 · answer #1 · answered by circusmort 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Titles of works, like names of bands, are exempted from copyright protection. The same words appear in many song titles or lyrics, and re-use of a catchy phrase is not an infringement as such. To take lyrics and put into another work may be infringement, but to use the phrase for an entirely different purpose is not infringement.
Lyrics can be copyrighted separately from the music [aka poetry] but then the lyricist does not share in royalties for instrumental versions, so most authors prefer to put both names on the the music tabulature.
Profit for Profits? Shouldn't it be Profit for Prophets??
2007-03-11 11:06:28 · answer #2 · answered by lare 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lyrics absolutely are copyrighted, at least in the US. And ASCAP, a clearing-house that manages permissions to use song lyrics, is pretty aggressive about enforcing copyright.
However, personal sites that post song lyrics crop up like weeds, and ASCAP is probably focused on uses of song lyrics where someone is actually making money from them. So concluding that lyrics sites are safe, and building a site designed to make money from them, might land you in some pretty serious trouble.
2007-03-08 13:58:56 · answer #3 · answered by Summer M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Call it profit for prophets, or prophet for profits.
change the spelling and make it your own, it also adds a little originality while paying homage to your leader, Gwar.
If you have to keep the original spelling, they probably won't care, but you could get in touch with the band's representation and ask them.
2007-03-08 13:56:54 · answer #4 · answered by Red Jed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can name your band that name legally. Just don't use that song on your first album/video without notifying the band's management.
2007-03-08 13:55:46 · answer #5 · answered by Your Uncle Dodge! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as quickly as you write something this is unique. it belongs to you. in case you post your writing on the internet. pc archives shop music of once you wrote it, so if somebody comes alongside 5 years later and likes your stuff, then comes to a decision to thieve and so happens that they make hundreds of thousands as a consequence. nicely then you particularly can sue that individual, and you will win in a court docket of regulation. you do no longer might desire to pay to have it copyrighted.
2016-09-30 10:14:47 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lrics are copyrighted. Titles of songs are not.
2007-03-08 13:53:47 · answer #7 · answered by I am Sunshine 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yah a****!
2007-03-08 13:56:41 · answer #8 · answered by money lover 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋