Copyright music and lyrics

Copyright music and lyrics
• The law on copyright for music is 10% of the total time of the song, for example if a song was 100seconds long then the copyright law would be at maximum of 10 seconds. You have copyrights 70 years after your death or 95 years in total. Having copyrights to a song or lyrics means that no one can reproduce your own work. No one can make a profit from your work, no one can call your work their own and no one can perform this music without your permission. The year of public domain music is 1922. Also public domain means that anyone can use your work or reproduce your work. And proof of public domain means proving that your allowed to reproduce this music or use it for your own personal issues. Some rules of copyrights is …

• You must cite the source when showing information
• You can use 10% of text and data of an essay, article, no more than 1000 words
• Use up to 250 words of a poem
• You may not use more than 3 poems or portions of a poem from one poet.
• You may use up to 10%, but no more than 2500 fields or cells from a database or data table
• You may use a single photograph or illustration
• You may not use more than 5 images from a single photographer
• You may use up to 10%, but no more than 15 images, from a single publication
• You may use a single chart, graph, or diagram, cartoon, or picture from a book or magazine.
• Only 10% of music from a song
• No more than 3 minutes in a movie or TV show
• No more than 30 seconds in a single song
• You cannot copy information from one internet website onto another website.
• You can create a link to another website
• You can use information from the internet in multimedia presentation.

One case of famous people in infringement is when Johnny Cash copied one of Gordon Jenkins songs from his album. He used lines word from word in his songs; it took 15 years to finally settle the copyright laws.