lyrics

I am creating a band fansite and I was wondering if it was illegal to take lyrics off other lyric sites and copy/paste, cause those sites probably got it from users, and the users doubtfully have copyright laws. If it is illegal, how bout if i say "thanks to ____.com"?

the lyrics in fact are almost the same in every site... i'd be VERY difficult to identify if you took the lyrics from other site... so i guess you don't need to 'thank' any other site.

that's true, cause the lyrics are usually directly from lyrics booklet, which is legal to post, but still, somebody else put the work into typing them up, right? o.O

[talkie]

If it is a fan website, than it is k, you should make no problem with copying lyrics.
The problem would be if you would put videos and audio files to listen to.

Unless they're on youtube...anything is legal then! ^.^ haha. just about every song is on there, or every good one at least.

lol, not everything in youtube is legal haha, it got a LOT of problems due to illegal content...
but that's not your problem

Originally Posted by Battousai

lol, not everything in youtube is legal haha, it got a LOT of problems due to illegal content...
but that's not your problem

too true.
BLAME GOOGLE!
hehe. would be unfortunate if they did a sweep and took out all those vids though

no it's not illegal to post music lyrics to a fansite. I think as long as you don't sell them then it's copyright infringement. There changing so many laws you don't know good luck.

Its most definatly NOT users submit it at their own will and it under then GNU license. You should adknowledge them however.

the lyrics of a song are the same on every website because they're lyrics of the same song
you can ask the artist for some promo songs to use on your website