Remixes...

There have been some articles regarding remixes that have caught my eye.
The first was from TASHED regarding the band Phoenix: PHOENIX REMIXES KEEP ON COMING

The second regarding the same subject from Music Under Fire Phoenix: Remixes

I anticipate Alizée to have her share of remixes with this new album. The association with Chateau Marmont and Insitubes will attract more remixes then we have seen in the past. Whoa...did I go out on a limb there? No longer just a redistributer of news, or opinions, now predictions...If I am wrong you can cut my pay.

So, what about remixes? Everyone knows, you take a song, put your own video to it and YouTube shuts you down due to copyright violations. As it should be. Some songs/video can not be seen in certain countries.

But what of this remix thing....change the tempo, call it a remix and....
What does Wikipedia have to say on the subject

"A remix is an alternative version of a song, different from the original version.
A remixer uses audio mixing to compose an alternate master recording of a song, adding or subtracting elements, or simply changing the equalization, dynamics, pitch, tempo, playing time, or almost any other aspect of the various musical components

Copyright Implications
Because remixes may borrow heavily from an existing piece of music (possibly more than one), the issue of intellectual property becomes a concern. The most important question is whether a remixer is free to redistribute his or her work, or whether the remix falls under the category of a derivative work according to (for example) United States copyright law.

There are two obvious extremes with regard to derivative works. If the song is substantively dissimilar in form (for example, it might only borrow a motif which is modified, and be completely different in all other respects), then it may not necessarily be a derivative work (depending on how heavily modified the melody and chord progressions were). On the other hand, if the remixer only changes a few things (for example, the instrument and tempo), then it is clearly a derivative work and subject to the copyrights of the original work's copyright holder"

This opens up a Pandora's Box full of questions
Do remixers pay royalties?
If a sports venue plays a song royalties must me paid, what if they play a remix? Are royalties paid to the remixer, the original artist, both, neither?
If a non-professional remixes a song and calls it a remix, will it pass on YouTube?
Will a song not allowed to be seen in a certain country via YouTube be allowed to be seen/heard if it is remixed?

Isn't this fun....
Someone associated with Institubes knows the answers...

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