Is it illegal to post a music mix containing professional artists&#39; songs?
<p>I enjoy electronic music and making mixes / compositions of my favourite songs. I'm not a producer, I just download and put together good songs for others such as my friends and work colleagues to listen to and maybe discover new artists from.</p>

<p>I have almost 30, 1-hour mixes from almost 700 different songs from many different professional, electronic artists from around the world.</p>

<p>If I wanted to upload my mixes for others to listen to on say YouTube or SoundCloud, would that be legal? I don't want to make any money from this and I would include a tracklist containing every song and artist on all the mixes.</p>

<p>I have heard that you need permission from an artist to include their song(s), but I'm not 100% sure. If it was illegal and someone posted a mix of songs including music under copyright, what would happen? (I'm not going to do that if I'm not allowed, but I would still like to know).</p>

<p><em>Also</em>:
I have been redirected here from music.stackexchange after hearing hearing about "mechanical rights" and "re-broadcasting" without permission.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

<p>The short answer is that yes, this is a copyright violation for which the copyright holder could choose to take legal action against you. </p>

<p>You could, however, list the songs in question and provide links to authorized providers of those songs without providing the contents of the song yourself and thus avoid violating copyright laws.</p>

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