can i sell my remix songs?

Question

I downloaded instrumentals for famous songs, im gonna make a remix to some of them and im gona record them at my house. Can i sell them on myspace store thing? just wonderin since i didnt purchase or paid for the instrumental, but i've seen other people do it. they remixed songs and they are sellin them

Answer 1

Not legally. You already violated copyright law by downloading the music. You would then violate the laws again by selling the compilation of the music.

Answer 2

You are absolutely not allowed to sell remixed songs, or any containing any samples at all without getting permission from the artists. Those people are breaking the law. Learn how to play an instrument and sing your own songs (or doesn't anybody do that anymore?)

Answer 3

No, you can't do that it's illegal. You can legally sample existing works, although I think your allowed like maximum 3 seconds per sample, you can't use continuous samples (i.e. chop a song into 3 second loops) and generally you have to post-process the sound so it is not recognizable. Basically, if anything you remix sounds remotely like an existing copyrighted work you can be sued. You can't get recognition for yourself using someone else's 'hook', sample or loops.

Answer 4

What you are proposing violates copyright laws, and you might get sued or prosecuted. Probably not, but strictly speaking you could be, esp. since you propose selling them afterwards.

To do it legally, you need to pay for the use of two things: the songs involved, and the performances involved. So if you, for example, download John Coltrane playing a "My Favorite Things" you'd need to get rights from Coltrane, and from Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein III (or their estates).

For very old songs and/or older recordings, they might be in the public domain and you wouldn;t need to pay. If your sample is very very small, it might be small enough to be called fair use, and therefore be legal, but in music even small phrases have been found to be protectable under copyright law.

Answer 5

generally, you can change the material and then re sell it without clashing with any copyright laws, however, if there is parts of the original still left intact you may be liable. what most people do is speed up the original by a tiny amount so that it is different but not noticable, thus avoiding any copyrighting

Answer 6

you need to get written permission from the song's original artist