I came up with idea for website- you sing snippet of song, people name it for you

Tell me if such site exists: you go on the site, with a snippet- either a sound or a bit of lyrics that you can’t use to find it on the internet- in your head (or both), and you record that in a media snippet on the site w/ a mike you have on your PC (you must have a mic). Then, the users try to tell you what that song you crave is.

I claim all rights to the idea- I won’t charge anyone, but I deserve the glory of the concept :D. And if anyone starts a fee site with the idea, I’ll start the free site with the idea, dig?

It sure sounds good, and I don’t know if such a site already exists; however, Musipedia has some of the functions you are asking about, it’s just automatical and very simplified, what with using Parsons codes and all. Even so, while not being a good whistler at all, I can get it to recognize some familiar tunes.

What might be tricky, though, is whether a site with snippets of actual songs - as opposed to simple codes like in Musipedia - is breaking any copyright laws. Somebody else surely has an answer for that.

You know, there’s a reason why you can’t upload images into your posts here… the same reason would apply to the russian-roulette of audio snippets: people are jerks.

When other people will be able to hear those snippets, it probably would violate copyright laws - depending on the length of the fragments. See this link, for instance

The copyright on “Happy Birthday To You” was also mentioned by the fearless leader himself here

And Sports Night (we knew ye well…!) did an entire episode around this bit of information – Dan sang some of it on the air since he thought it’d be nice, and the copyright cops came after him. :smiley:

So, do any of you have a way of finding out the copyright thing w/o me having to pay a lawyer? Maybe by me just consulting one?

And by just claiming rights to it now, is the idea for the site legally mine? Can I sue if someone creates it later? Somehow I think not…

Well?..

Dammit if one of you is out there making this site right now, I WILL SUE.

I WILL.

:frowning: