{"id":21,"date":"2008-08-26T16:47:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T20:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/summerinterns08\/?p=21"},"modified":"2008-08-26T16:47:17","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T20:47:17","slug":"with_a_little_help_from_my_space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/summerinterns08\/2008\/08\/26\/with_a_little_help_from_my_space\/","title":{"rendered":"With A Little Help From My&#8230;Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week(-ish), several of the interns and I were speaking about music copyright.  The conversation started when I innocently asked if the Beatles cover I have up on my <a href='http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/alisternburg'>MySpace<\/a> is legal.  I know that there are clearly legal processes to complete in order to sell a cover song, but I was not selling it.  I simply wanted to share my version of With A Little Help From My Friends with some of my friends.  (And probably some lurkers and stalkers.)<\/p>\n<p>We came to several main points of contention:<br \/>\n-Whether it is different for streaming music (like on MySpace, or YouTube, etc.) vs. downloading a hard copy.  However, I was informed that it is apparently fairly easy to (illegally) copy music playing out of your speakers onto your computer.<br \/>\n-Whether it is different that I was not charging money.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been doing more research on whether my interpretation is fair use, or whether it is legal for people to be able to listen on-demand to my music, or whether it is legal for MySpace to have a copy of my song on their server.  This post will probably get updated soon after I get to the correct section in the book I just purchased on &#8220;The Future of the Music Business: How to Succeed with the New Digital Technologies&#8221; by Steve Gordon.<\/p>\n<p>I find these issues so fascinating that I am in the process of formulating it into a Government thesis.  Any input is of course welcome.<\/p>\n<p>I was experimenting with the features of this blog, so here is an embedded copy (also hopefully legal):<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/summerinterns08\/files\/2008\/08\/with-a-little-help-from-my-friends.mp3'>With A Little Help From My Friends &#8211; Ali Sternburg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week(-ish), several of the interns and I were speaking about music copyright. The conversation started when I innocently asked if the Beatles cover I have up on my MySpace is legal. I know that there are clearly legal processes to complete in order to sell a cover song, but I was not selling it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1839,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/summerinterns08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/summerinterns08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/summerinterns08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/summerinterns08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/summerinterns08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/summerinterns08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/summerinterns08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/summerinterns08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/summerinterns08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}