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it is illegal because you are taking profit from the artist who made the song Not really. That's the idea, but in most cases it's the record producing company getting 75 to 95% of the profits on music sales. Each artist gets a very small (miniscule) amount from each sale. It's illegal because there is a such thing as copyright law: if you make a new work of art (music, book, picture, painting) it's yours to do with what you want. You can trash it, sell it, show it in your windows, lease/license it (allows someone else specific AND ONLY those specific rights.) You can decide only 4 people can see it for 2 minutes on every 14th Wed in odd years in Bangladesh, while wearing only Dashikis.

If we as a society will not honor the right of ownership by the artist there will be far less content available and that will be derivative i.e. nothing new. My painting is mine and you (whoever) have no right to sell postcards or tshirts with my painting on it without permission; whether you make money from it or not - IT'S MINE! Like someone's name "I'm Mel Gibson** and I can paint that car for $18.99" We all know that using someone else's name (without permissions) to sell something is wrong, why is it so hard to accept that using their art (music, book etc) is just as wrong?

** no I'm not, I'm not even Melanie Gibson.

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