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Satire is protected under fair use so yes you don’t need permission for a comedy performance. A musical performance? Hell yes.
No, you’re not correct. Cover bands don’t need to ask permission. The venues they play at should be writing down the songs they’re playing and submitting them to PROs, but the bands don’t need to do anything.
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You could use https://vocalremover.org/ to remove music. I've used it for sampling speech out of tv programmes with background audio and the results are immense.
Whoa, tried https://vocalremover.org/splitter-ai on a couple tracks and it sounds better than Spleeter, Demucs and Serato. What model do they use?
Rappers built their music (literary) over others’ samples. Now it is their turn to be "creatively" used.
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No, you’re not correct. Cover bands don’t need to ask permission. The venues they play at should be writing down the songs they’re playing and submitting them to PROs, but the bands don’t need to do anything.
Whether it's the band or the venue paying, someone is paying (which is the point).
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This is a tired cliche. Does Supabase owe him royalties when they use that same model that trained on Eminem’s lyrics to make a chat bot that can interact with their support documentation? https://supabase.com/blog/chatgpt-supabase-docs
Possibly yes, though it's more likely that OpenAI owes royalties on the revenue they get from ChatGPT. We have yet to see this play out in court, but we likely will in the following years.
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You’re thinking about this wrong. Do I need to ask permission to impersonate Eminem during a comedy performance? How about during a musical performance? The answer is no. This is fair use 101. If you cover a song of his while doing an impersonation then this is covered by the performance fees the venue you’re playing at pays every year to ASCAP and BMI.
Satire is protected under fair use so yes you don’t need permission for a comedy performance. A musical performance? Hell yes.
The example I like (even though Weird Al always obtains permission so doesn't need Free Speech protection) is "Smells Like Nirvana" compared to "Fat".
Smells Like Nirvana is satire. The thing criticised is Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", and the wider Grunge phenomenon it exemplifies. Al's song talks about how Kurt's lyrics are mumbled and hard to understand, "It's hard to bargle nawdle zouss / With all these marbles in my mouth", and about how it's too loud so it'll annoy your mom and dad, "We're so loud and incoherent / Boy, this oughta bug your parents". This can't work if Al uses Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas" instead of Teen Spirit.
"Fat" isn't satire. Michael Jackson wasn't obese or even overweight, and his song isn't causing people to eat too much junk food, Al's song is just using the outline structure of Jackson's "Bad" because that fits and his new song is funny. If his lyrics had fitted better to Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" that would have been fine.
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There is a very big difference between putting out a record and playing something at a performance. The latter is a lot more lax.
yup, this could be more like Daft Punk using samples.