Remixing (old topic)
I think writing a paper on either remixing or covering an old song would make a good paper. I want to know how the people get the rights to remix a song or cover an old song and making it popular again. Even if the song isn’t remixed or covered, new artists are using old song’s background music, instead of the whole song in it’s entirety. Take Rihanna for instance, her song “SOS” uses samples of the background of “Tainted Love.” Did she have to purchase the rights to market the background music for her song or was it just slightly different enough that she could pass it off as her own. What about rap songs that use other’s lyrics or titles in their song. What happens to them? Do they have to buy the rights to use another artist’s original lyric?