Originally Posted By: jo131
Hi Noel.
What I am saying is that there would be no song writing royalties at all. So if a song turned into a big seller then the person who recorded/produced it gets everything. So in the case of "I will always love you" Whitney Houston and her producer would get everything from her version and Dolly Parton would get everything from her own (dolly's) version. Of course in the proposed scenario it would not have been Dolly's song to start out with. It would have been everybodies. Similar to "happy birthday to you".


Joanne, “Happy Birthday” is a copyrighted song: http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/07/04/happy-birthday-to-you-copyrighted/

So technically if you sing it the licensee should get compensated. However don’t worry. I doubt the music cops will go house to house to see if you are singing it!

But you can’t put it in a movie without copyright permission: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jun/14/happy-birthday-lawsuit-copyright-warner

A simple solution would be whomever’s contributions to the song were used in the finished product would be included as a composer of the song.

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