Re: Publishing song titles and artist names on a commercial web site

Keeping in mind that I am responding only to this very specific and narrow request and no attorney-client relationship is created by my response, here it is:

Factual bibliographic and indexing sorts of information are not protected by copyright. Under copyright law you do not need permission to publish (online or anywhere else) a listing of composers, songs, performers, or other such basic, factual information.

So publish away!

On Apr 24, 2006, at 11:45 AM, Onur Polat wrote:

> I'm thinking over publishing song titles and artist names on a web
> site, on which there also will be commercial advertisements.
>
> It will be like this:
>
> "Songs about love:
> I love you - Frank Lovetra
> I love you too - Jennifer Lovezz
> "
>
> Do I need to get permission for publishing such information? Please
> note that the site will be a commercial one, and there will appear
> advertisements on the pages with these lists. Also note that lyrics
> or the music itself will not be published. Just the titles of the
> songs and artists that sing / play / composed them.
>
> Thank you for any replies in advance.
>
> Onur Polat
>
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