copyright question

[ulla_petersen]

I assume that all tunes on this site that have a composer are protected by copyright, isn’t it so?

And that traditional tunes are not.

But how about “The Butterfly”; the sheet music says “attributed to Tommy Potts”, so is it his tune, and is it protected by copyright?

The reason I ask is that I like to make small arrangements of tunes and upload them to Soundcloud, and I don’t want to violate any copyright rules.

[Casey Willis]

Hi, Ulla. I think you should be fine for your purposes – unless you plan to monetize your recordings, my understanding is that you can record any song you wish for personal purposes.

It just becomes an issue when you would like to sell a copy of your performance. Hope that helps!

[ulla_petersen]

Yes, it does; thanks a lot.

I’ll go on with my little impressionistic butterfly project, then 😉

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