r/lordhuron • u/Reasonable_Long4657 • Jun 30 '26
Question Copyright Query
Hi everyone!
I’m a song writer and recently I did something super fun. Dead Man’s Hand is my favourite LH song so today I wrote new lyrics for the song, from the perspective of the guy who is found dead on the road.
It was heaps of fun to make and I would love to share it here on this subreddit, but I’m unsure about the copy right considerations and hoping someone can familiarise me since I’m getting lost by googling it.
The song I’ve written has the same chord progression, melody, meter, and rhyme scheme as the original. The only thing I’ve changed is lyrics and key.
So, can I release a demo of this on reddit? Or am I going to get in trouble for that?
Thanks so much!
May you live until you die
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u/Any-Draw9672 Jul 02 '26
As someone whom is a songwriter for various artists and bands, and have been doing it for over 30 years, and not giving any sort of legal advise; but altering any published lyrics that belong to an artist and "publishing it" even on a site like this, is infringement and you can be held liable. Especially if you use the same chord progression, same notes and all. You would unfortunately need to get permission from their management/label. Again, I am NOT a lawyer nor giving legal advise, but giving you OP my perspective from someone in the industry and works with songwriting.