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If the same copyright laws that apply to the music of Bob Dylan now, had applied to all the music Bob Dylan ripped off there would be no Bob Dylan. Copyright i
by mikojan 4y ago
If the same copyright laws that apply to the music of Bob Dylan now, had applied to all the music Bob Dylan ripped off there would be no Bob Dylan.
Copyright is a bane to human culture.
- micromacrofoot 4y agois that really true? lots of bands still do covers
- bonestamp2 4y agoIf it's a popular artist, they're paying for the rights to perform and/or record those songs. I helped a band that isn't even popular, nor signed to a label, but they wanted to post their cover to youtube and they ended up paying a popular 90's band for the rights to do the cover.
- zrail 4y agoBands can do covers because there's an existing structure in the US for compulsory mechanical licensing. No such thing exists for anything other than non-dramatic music, as far as I know.
- iggldiggl 4y agoAnd even then the compulsory licensing only covers relatively "straight" cover versions – you can change the arrangement and the general style of the song, but you need to keep the basic melody and the lyrics more or less intact. Now Dylan also did a number of those relatively straight cover versions as well, but there are also quite a few instances where he more liberally took (occasionally self-admittedly "stole", see the sibling post by mikojan) parts of a melody (or sometimes even the whole melody) and re-worked it with new lyrics, or incorporated text fragments from other works into his lyrics, etc. etc.
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- mikojan 4y agoYea... covers... sure... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVKTx9YlKls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVKTx9YlKls Edit: Interview in the first 50 seconds. The song comes after that.