how can i buy metallica slipknot or marilyn manson songs to Rocksmith 2014 ?? pls

[císařstanislav III.]

how can i buy metallica slipknot or marilyn manson songs to Rocksmith 2014 ?? pls

[císařstanislav III.]

ok ty

[císařstanislav III.]

but i saw metallica slipknot and marilyn manson in rocksmith 2014

[woof]

I was thinking about song licensing today, and the fact that a lot of the early rock songs are now over 50 years old. Does anyone know how old a song has to be to enter the public domain, or can song copyright holder extend their rights indefinitely if they pay the necessary fees and jump throught the appropriate hoops?

[Kid Meatball]

Song licensiing is funny business. There are two parts to the license, the published music, or the sheet music, and the recording. Both are actually separate deals and often owned by separate parties. When a band writes a song, they publish the song, and are the owners of the sheet music. When they are picked up by a record label, often the label licenses the sheet music to make the recording, then the label owns the recording. Essentially, they hired the band to record their own song. That's why so many of those artists feel like they signed away their souls to the devil record industry. Some of the smart ones never signed those kind of deals. Its probably the one reason the Stones are so f'n rich now. They have owned their own material throughout their career.

One way to think about how public domain works in music, is to look at a CD of Beethoven for example. Anyone is allowed to make their own version of his 9th Symphony. They can have cats perform it, or an entire guitorchestra (yes I have thought of doing this) perform it from Beethoven's original sheet music. Record and sell it and tour it if they so choose. Then what they can do is copyright the recordings that they have made so that no one can just copy paste all that hard work it was to get the cats to play all those guitars and make a ton of money.

All this can create strange rules about when a song can become public domian. Usually it is 70 years after the death of the creator, but when recordings and re-recordings or remastering or the rights get sold, things start to get a little fuzzy. Its not likely anything you'd want in rocksmith apart from classical works will be public domain in any of our lifetimes, unless the creator wills it to public domain. Maybe some old Jazz from the 20's will come up soon, but I won't hold my breath and puff up my cheeks for the Louis Armstrong DLC for Trumpetsmith.

[woof]

Thanks for the responses. Fifty years isn't much time when you compare it to seventy years after the death of the creator.