[HPFGU-OTChatter] Speaking of filks - a serious request

[Heidi Tandy]

The problem is that there is potential copyright problem with creating a 
soumdfile and uploading it here on the yahoogroup, and there's a space 
problem with it too. I'm sure the mods would delete any songs that were 
uploaded into the files section for these two reasons.

For those who don't know, I'm a copyright/trademark attorney, and while 
creating filks likely falls inside the same fair use protection that 
fanfic gets, because it's a commentary on or discussion of the 
underlying work, making a copy of the song itself, and distributing that 
song, doesn't get the same level of protection.

It's why, when I filk, I always link to either the song on an official 
site, if it's there, or to an authorized snip of the song on amazon or 
some other online store, again, if it's there. That's legal, that's 
safe.

And I know if anyone wants to get a copy of it illegally, they can head 
over to google or use a fileswapping program and get it that way, but I 
don't feel right providing the links/info myself...

Heidi, who isn't giving any legal advice


On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 2:57PM -0500, bettedavisgreen at aol.com wrote:
> Real-To:  bettedavisgreen at aol.com
>
> Dans un e-mail daté du 12/07/2003 17:25:37 Paris, Madrid (heure d'été),
> anneu53714 at yahoo.com a écrit :
>
>>  Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone who posted a filk included a
>>  link to a midi or some other AUDIO version of the song being filked??
>>  <snip>
>>  List Elves, could y'all request this? I believe it would help a lot
>>  of people more fully appreciate the filks.
>>
>>  Anne U
>>  (hoping I'm not the only person who is bothered by this)
>>
>>
>
> Here here! Please do, if there is no copyright problem with that.
>
> As non-american and non-british I admit I have a huge difficulty in
> appreciating filks, and have even given up on them (well... I still 
> skim them for the
> lyrics...) because I really don't know almost any of the songs used...
>
> Cristina
>
>
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