Hello, I need to put a legal disclaimer in a webpage I am doing for an electronic music collective, and well I was advised not to put anything that is not owned by us until we sort the legal things out so that we dont get into trouble, and I was wondering if a legal disclaimer would be enough to prevent us from getting sued or anything.

I also googled up "how to make a legal disclaimer" and "legal disclaimer tutorial" but I couldnt really find anything except everybody elses legal disclaimer. I thought that i might copy a thing or two from some of them, but If anybody has a good guide or advice for my webpage's legal tutorial, it will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

A legal disclaimer on a website is not enough to prevent you from being sued for copyright infringement and piracy if you start filling your website with other people's material. For every piece of music you intend to put on your site you need to contact the copyright holder and ask them for permission, explaining exactly what you intend to use the music for. Of course, if the music is released under a Creative Commons licence, or something similar, then that licence grants you the necessary permissions.



I wouldn't copy them. For some reason, a large number of lawyers have got it into their heads that they can sue for copyright infringement if you use part of their copyright notices or even legal letters sent to you. Obviously their charges aren't enough anyway, and they have to supplement their income by suing people