Does Wierd Al Yankovich pay or ?
 

Does Wierd Al Yankovich pay or ? When he makes a song like/similiar to a copyrighted song ?

tpg

he has always paid royalties.

his dad was very famous and he has tons of connections.

:thumbsup

who is his dad?

Mr. Yankovich

Listen to A Complicated Song, its funny as hell

Frank Yankovich man.

Never heard of him? Who do you think taught Al how to play accordion? Frank Yankovich is still very famous among certain genres.

<img src=http://www.xs4all.nl/~rabruil/frankphoto.jpg border="1">

On the right, with the accordion.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~rabruil/remyank.html

yup, you definitely have to get permission and pay to record song parodies. Al gets turned down sometimes.

BUT lots of radio morning shows do them, Howard Stern used to lots of them. I guess the difference is that he doesn't sell them so that is fair use.

the thing i always wonder about is there is a radio station i sometimes listen to and often when they are doing some lame local commercial for like Big Sid's Muffler Shop, they play well known classic rock tunes.