Reddit reviews Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century

I'm good friends with an attorney that specializes in this kind of stuff. I should just bring her on here to answer questions. There's so much misinformation out there and honestly... I don't think some corps fully understand, either.

Edit: Please read this old thread from /u/cadet311, for the most part...it is accurate about the description of securing rights. One thing that she encouraged me to add is that any type of rights granted are revocable at any point. So to simplify things, yes, leaks CAN put the corps at risk. This is the type of thing that can kill a drum corps.

And also - read this regarding folks that post videos: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1101

Crown needs to cover their ass and post what they did, and say that it is not an authorized recording and should be deleted. This is fully within their rights.

That being said, we're texting all of this out right now, so AMA I guess.

Edit 2: Synchro rights - (putting video with the audio) are granted for certain things. Fan recordings on YouTube are not covered. A great resource is this book: https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Sound-Remaking-Copyright-Twentieth/dp/0199858225

I am not acting as anyone's lawyer and this is not legal advice.