Law about lyrics

It is nice to be able to find almost every lyrics in the internet, but we have to be aware that there are also some rules. All lyrics, which authors are not dead since 70 years, are under copyright. That means that you are only aloud to use and spread the lyrics when you get the permission from the bailee, special for the announcement via the internet.

Websites which announce lyrics in the internet assigned often on the Web 2.0 typical root. It is just "User generated content", that means texts which were made available internet users (mostly by unknown persons) . The legal covering from this contents is not manageable because of the daily transmittals, unfortunately you have still the responsibility. With that we won't blame the bailees instead we want to boost the popularity from the songs, through the lyrics and the translations. In the end the text is not a secret. Everyone who has a radio and is able to understand the lyric is aloud to take notes and sing it if he/she wants to.

For most of the people these topic is uncomfortable and they are unwilling to understand, the copyright empower the bailee to protect their texts and to ask for compensation. Unfortunately frequently they make use of that. Since Songvista exists, there were two waves of reminder that rolls over the German lyric sites and force many carrier with utopian demands to abandon. At the latest, when the text brings no incomes any more, special yet some people scent a business to earn money.

In that case you should always be aware of this problem. Especially when you want to earn money with the texts, it is necessary to gain the relative rights. The lyrics on the different sites, which are linked here are only for use in private, intending to understand the text or to sing karaoke.