November Competition - "Permission Granted"

The key to this months competition is 'Permission'.

You get to recreate/interpret/cover or give tribute to any piece of music that you have permission to do so.

By permission we mean either:

1) Public domain/copyright free music (eg Mozart) or...

2) Something you have express permission to reinterpret by the original artist (eg get permission from the original artist here on mp3unsigned).

If you decide to rework a track that is on mp3unsigned.com then you need to get written permission to do so, this can be in the form of either a post here in the forum or a PM to Admin. Please clear permission with the artist BEFORE you spend time working on anything, you don't have to post this permission until the time that you post your track (if you wish).

-This competition is open to all genres.
-Any genre piece of music can be reworked by any other genre (eg rock/trance or dnb/classical etc).
- You can rework/reinvent/interpret/cove/pay tribute or do whatever else you want with your track
-Winner will be voted by the community
-The winner will receive 1 month free promotion on the mp3unsigned homepage and forum and the track will be released on iTunes and Amazon etc through Tunecore.
-No unauthorised samples can be used
-Remixes are not eligible
-Closing date is 30th November

Please post anything related to this competition here in this thread . Trying to keep this one open to as broad a base as possible.

Most importantly, have fun

A


EDIT: Please read the posts below by M4t3z and Tony Miller for additional info on public domain works!

Here is the "Official Comp Page"
Please remember to leave any comments or votes for any track on the artists' own page.
A link is provided on the comp page for each track.

[Amadeus]

Thanks Darth

I may not be around too much over the coming week, wife's having a baby Will do my best to keep on top of this thread but if anyone needs anything done ASAP it's better off posting here in this thread or by PM to Darth Raver

Cheers,
A

[Dan Michaelson]

So what about parodies? I.E. Weird Al Yankovic? Not sure I have the talent but it seems this would fall under the "pay tribute to" part of the contest. I would love to give it a try, and my understanding is that it is not illegal to do parodies of any given work of art under that interpretation. Or is that just the U.S.? Or does it not apply? Does anyone give-o-shat

I'm a big fan of opening can-o-worms.....

[AMORFOXIZ]

I made a cover of An spanish flamenco called JALEO DE JEREZ by the austriac guy who lived in spain Johann Daniel Skoczdopole (1811 - 1877)...when and how can I upoad?

[Darth Raver]

That is a very good point, Dan, and parodies are a kind of tribute in a way. It is also interesting that parodies fall under a kind of loophole in copyright law. Under the "fair use" provision of U.S. copyright law, affirmed by the United States Supreme Court, one does not need permission to record a parody.

However, it is still illegal to use samples of pre-recorded music from the original song in a parody, as they are protected by copyright, so the parodist needs to re-record their own 'cover version' of the music they intend to parody, which is what Weird Al Yankovic does for every song.

And taking Weird Al as a case in point, even though he isn't required to by law, he famously always requests permission from the artist before releasing any parody, in order to maintain good relationships within the music community.

Rather than opening a can of worms, I think you have made a fine suggestion for a future comp and one we will look into legal-wise. But for this comp let's put parodies aside. When it comes to judgement, let's go the way of the Golden Globes or BAFTAs and keep drama and comedy accolades separate.

Let's not go the way of the Oscars (where Comedies very rarely win anyway...)

Cool with you? Thanks again for the great suggestion.

[paredafoe]

This could be of use to people

List of Public Domain Songs

[The Tje]

Hmmmm.... - I have been really busy recently so I'm not dead yet and also my music just sounds old and decrepid but is in fact much more recent. I'll have to pop round and see my mate Ludwig and get him to post something on here as well - cos he's also a bit upset about recent plagiurism of his classic works.. Hey Ludwig wake up...... !

- jon

[TonyMiller]

Originally Posted by The Tje

Hmmmm.... - I have been really busy recently so I'm not dead yet and also my music just sounds old and decrepid but is in fact much more recent. I'll have to pop round and see my mate Ludwig and get him to post something on here as well - cos he's also a bit upset about recent plagiurism of his classic works.. Hey Ludwig wake up...... !

- jon

The Decomposing Composers (Monty Python song)

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[stiffjesus]

Whereupon shall we post said 'permission' tracks? Shall we upload 'em to our artiste pages, and then take it/them from there?
Ta guv.

[Amadeus]

Hey Stiff For the time being, post them up on your own page - we'll get a comp page up and running soon and port them over from there.

[stiffjesus]

Okiedoke. Cheers Mr A