Licensing & Copyright

• Licensing & copyright

  What is music copyright? Music copyright assigns legal ownership of a musical composition or sound recording. If you ...

• Samples

  What is a sample? A sample is when you incorporate a part or element of another artist’s song into an entirely new tr...

• Remixes

  What is a remix? A remix is when you use a recording from another artist and make alterations and arrangements, and/o...

• Covers

  What is a cover? A cover is when you re-record a song from another artist using your own instrumental and vocals.  Wh...

• Derivative work

  What is derivative work? If you take a preexisting song and use it to create a new composition that is called “deriva...

• Public domain

  What is public domain? Music that falls into the public domain are those creations which are no longer subject to cop...