We learned last night that you cannot list and entire song's lyrics on a cache page. Geocaching allows only one chorus and one verse, or the cache cannot be published.
At least it's an easy fix (unless you based a mystery on it).
Copyright issues and geocaches
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Re: Copyright issues and geocaches
Hmmmmmmmm....don't tell my School House Rocks mystery series that.....I have MOST of the lyrics on the pages!
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Re: Copyright issues and geocaches
Those songs are over 30 years old, maybe they are considered public domain now??
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Next they'll be checking all the photos used on cache pages. Oops, forget I said that . Shhhh!
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Re: Copyright issues and geocaches
Crappers, going to hafta rethink the coffee table book we were working on:
"At LAST! The Best Pics Of The LAST Column".
"At LAST! The Best Pics Of The LAST Column".
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Re: Copyright issues and geocaches
As long as you give the songwriter proper credit for the song, then there is no liability. But I see GC's point by just avoiding the whole thing and saying that you can only use that much of a song.
Good Luck & Happy Hunting!
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Re: Copyright issues and geocaches
I remember back around 1990 my college film class final project required making a music video. However, it had the caveat that you had to have permission, or legal rights, to use whatever music you intend to, even with the projects having little chance to be seen by others than classmates & family.
Of course, who ever imagined something like youtube coming along which pretty much throws that control of copyrighted music out of control.
Of course, who ever imagined something like youtube coming along which pretty much throws that control of copyrighted music out of control.
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Re: Copyright issues and geocaches
Copyright limitations are the life of the author plus 30 years after the death of the author. Wow....I ACTUALLY remembered that from a class I taught 2 weeks ago!TeamMina wrote:Those songs are over 30 years old, maybe they are considered public domain now??
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