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Copying & Using Lyrics As Lyrics, Names Of Bands, Magazines & Organizations
I want to mention and briefly discuss the copying of lyrics.Many questions can arise pertaining to the copying of lyrics, questions that can be extremely wide-ranging. For this space today, I am mostly concerned with identifying a few examples of copying that I find constructive, reconstructive and progressive, i.e., these examples of copying do not infringe copyright or constitute laziness on the part of the new author/creator.Why are lyrics copied? Are lyrics copied for some of the same reasons that music is copied? I will pose a few possible answers as to why lyrics are copied: