I agree with you. We both write songs, but when he brought the idea in, and we both worked on it, I thought the band should take credit for it. I did as much as he did. At the moment, we are the band haha. The other members come and go, after they see how weird we are.:)
You never know. It isn`t a bad song. I`m more worried about his attitude. I could always try and write a better song, but when a bandmate acts like that, you have a problem. He does seem a bit of a bragger. Everybody agreed that I am a cowriter of the song, but I`m still looking for the laws...
I know what you mean. Let`s say he would copyright his instrumental masterpiece, but he can`t just take the melody I came up with without giving me credit for it, right?
He does own 50% of the melody. I can`t say he doesn`t. I just don`t want him to put his name on something we wrote together, even though he came up with the idea. I think I did my share for this song. A song without melody and lyrics.... has no identity. I`m not talking about instrumental parts:)
The thing is that until now, he was like a brother to me. I had an idea for a song, finished it with him, and gave him credit for it. He is a cowriter. So when he started telling people that he wrote this song by himself, when I wrote 50% of the melody and most of the lyrics, I was pretty...
We`re both songwriters. We`re in the same band. So, when he came up with this song idea, I said to myself: 'This is not bad. We can make a song out of it'. I put a lot of heart into it, and I came up with the melody for the verse and some ideas for the chorus. I must say, he wrote most of the...
Well, this is exactly what happened. One day he started playing a tune. It looked like he had an idea of what the song would be. He had an idea for the chorus that I changed a bit after that. Then he started playing something for the verse. I said to him that we could come up with something...
The thing is what you`re saying implies that people have common sense. Some of us don`t. That`s where law comes in! I can`t find anything online though! Just guidelines, not rules:mad:
Thank you so much for the reply! I wrote 90% of the lyrics and more than 50% of the melody (vocals)
So even if I wrote the lyrics only we would be cowriters?
Do you happen to have a link to a site with the copyright laws etc.
I googled it, but I haven`t found anything.
Thank you!
Andy
Hi guys,
I`m a noob and dunno much about rights and copyrights:(
My bandmate came up with a nice reggae rhythm and I did the vocals. Well, he also contributed to the vocals, but I did most of it. Does that mean that we cowrote the song? Thank you in advance!
Andy