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• Am I entitled to do cover versions?
• Can I arrange a piece of music?
• Can I get out of a bad contract?
• Can I stop someone from using my music?
• Can I use a song title that someone else has already used?
• Do I need permission to do a parody version of a song?
• Do I need permission to play music in public?
• Do I need permission to put copyright material such as text, music and film footage on the Internet?
• Do I need permission to set a poem to music ?
• How do I find a lawyer to represent me?
• How do I obtain permission to include a sample of a famous philosopher speaking in a song?
• How do I prove I wrote the song?
• How do we protect the band name?
• If a broadcaster has made a tape of my performance solely for broadcast, is my permission needed to sell tapes of that performance?
  
• If a client has not paid me for work they commissioned, are they infringing copyright by using it?
• If I employ session musicians to play on my song, do they have any right to claim ownership of copyright if they contribute to the song?
• If I pay someone to arrange music I have composed, who owns the copyright?
• If I pay someone to put music I have composed into musical notation, who owns the copyright?
• If I write a song based on someone else's idea, who owns the copyright?
• If someone wants to tape my performance, what conditions should I impose?
  
• In a music contract, should rights revert to the composer or the publisher after a fixed time?
  
• What are royalties?
• What can I do if my copyright has been infringed overseas?
• What can we do if someone tapes our gig without our knowledge and then produces and sells low-quality Cds?
• What if a number of people write a song together?
• Where can I get standard music contracts?
• Who owns the copyright after the songwriter's death?