Recording Rights Quotes

Anyone who knows anything should know you cannot take a master track of a recording and write another song over the top of it. You just can't do that. You can call it a tribute or whatever you want to call it, but it's against the law. That's a problem with some of the younger generation, they don't understand the concept of intellectual property and copyright.

If the broadcasters were to win on their claims, they'd outlaw the DVR.

I didn't record 'Pumped Up Kicks' out of a sense of moral obligation.

There are so many songs I've recorded, only to hear other people singing them. It happens all the time.

I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for sale.

I can do anything onstage. Here's the misconception: You could record an album called 'The Best of Styx.' And all you would have to do is pay the individual songwriters a mechanical royalty.

It's always push and pull with a record company.

I like the old days when, if I wrote a song and I recorded it, it didn't mean somebody else couldn't record it.

Here's the way the licensing works ... If you write a song, nobody can record your song before you do without your permission. But, once the song is recorded, they can get what's called a 'compulsory license', and they can record the tune, but they have to pay you royalties.

Well, I think that it is complicated in that the first four albums were all with Universal so they have the rights to that and therefore it is a lot easier for them to do that period.

If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!

What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions.