The Law 9610 that regulates copyright in Brazil affirms, in its 49th paragraph, that the reproduction or execution of small passages of intellectual works does not equal violation of copyright, as long as the reproduction per se not the main objective of the new work or that the commercialization of the original work is not damaged by the creation of variants.
http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/l9610.htm
I've read that Roberto Carlos does not like his songs being used for political purposes. That's quite funny, considering that he was practically the "official singer" of the Brazilian dictatorship. The "role model" the regime had for the Brazilian youth: be stupid, shallow, talk about girls, talk about cars, and forget about everything else". He composed interesting songs during the most repressive time of the dictatorship. Some excerpts:
"How worthy is my life as a playboy
if I get in my car and loneliness hurts
wherever I go to, everything is so sad
it doesn't matter to me what else is going on
I just want you to warm me in this winter
and everything else may go to hell"
The "heroes" praised by him in his songs were similar to the regime thugs:
"And nobody has lived to say
they have opposed him without dying
In fighting duels, he didn't even blink
In the trigger, he was the man
And everyone that challenged him
Met their end."
He also had no problems in exploiting the Christian faith of the people with a speech that is incredibly similar to the one used by the regime.
"Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, I am here
I look up to the sky and I see a white cloud passing by
I look to Earth and I see a crowd that is walking by
Like this white cloud these people don't know where they are heading to
Who can tell them the right path is you, my Lord"
"The relationship between Roberto Carlos and the regime was not just a quick eye blink, a flirt, or a distant gesture. (...) The "King" Roberto not only composed the kind of music that was allowed in that forbidding time. The "King" was not only the well-behaved young man, that didn't step on the grass because he was told not to. He was not only the free man that only would do what the regime told him to do. No. Roberto Carlos was able to compose real "pearls", "diamonds", that lifted the world as ordered by the regime. While students were being shot and hunted, while the television and the cinema was broadcasting the regime propaganda "Brazil, love it or leave it", what was our "King" doing? He was creating songs that were anthems, a gospel of empty hearts, a sound without the the fury of the Afro-Americans."
http://www.cartamaior.com.br/templates/materiaImprimir.cfm?materia_id=7921
Looks like he had no problems with the fascist using his songs... what changed? A leftist used it now?
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