Re: Any legal way to upload songs to your website?
BobbyJoe wrote:Is there any legal way to upload songs to a website? For instance if someone owned the cd, could they upload the song onto their hardrive and then upload it onto the internet and use it for background music?
Short answer: no.
Long answer: legally, you can only use recorded music on your website if: (1) the amount of music that you use is small enough to constitute a "fair use" of that material under the copyright laws (for complicated reasons, that's not likely); or (2) both the underlying copyright in the music (the (C) copyright) and the performance copyright (the (P) copyright) are in the public domain; or (3) you've obtained permission from the copyright owners to use the work.