*Serious Question* What's the Legal Differences between Singing Popular Songs in Public & Rewriting Popular Songs in Public

[V-Origin]

Hey all, I am a most serious fan of K-Pop, J-Pop, C-Pop for many years now.

 

There are quite a number of singers on youtube who do covers of many popular asian pop songs. Someone like Jasmine Clarke come to mind.

 

Recently, I have the inspirations to rewrite the lyrics of popular asian pop songs and singing them in public on youtube and such.

 

https://www.quora.com/Is-rewriting-lyrics-to-the-tune-of-a-song-a-copyright-infringement

 

However, there seems to be some legal trouble if I rewrite the lyrics of a song and then sing them in public according to the thread above.

 

What bothers me is that there are so many singers doing covers of popular asian songs on youtube without any legal ramifications on their part but there seem to be legal trouble if I rewrite lyrics to a popular song?

 

What's the difference?

 

Kang Min Kyung has done covers of songs sung by other Korean singers in public and on her youtube channel but does she have to give royalties to the original korean singers of the songs which she do covers on?

 

 

[Taemi]

I'd say you don't have to the original singers, but you have to the original composers, if you use their tune.

 

I read that you can't change a copyright piece without authorisation from its autors (unless it's categorize as parody, but even, it's better with agreement). A simple cover don't touch the original work, but re-writing lyrics does.

 

For covers, composers and writers got a split directly from youtube, like if it was a radio airplay.

 

That being said, I'm not an expert in that field. I could be wrong.

[V-Origin]

I'd say you don't have to the original singers, but you have to the original composers, if you use their tune.

 

I read that you can't change a copyright piece without authorisation from its autors (unless it's categorize as parody, but even, it's better with agreement). A simple cover don't touch the original work, but re-writing lyrics does.

 

For covers, composers and writers got a split directly from youtube, like if it was a radio airplay.

 

That being said, I'm not an expert in that field. I could be wrong.

 

Thanks for replying.

 

I am wondering if the music companies in south korea, japan and taiwan might take action against an Australian who rewrites their songs in English?

 

I mean wouldn't the south korean, japanese and taiwanese music companies have to fly all the way to Australia just to take legal action against Australians who rewrite their songs partially or totally in English?

 

Wouldn't that be too much of a headache?