Can I legally sell a tribute video using iTunes downloads if I purchase each song for every DVD sold?

No, purchasing the songs does NOT give you distribution rights! You must get with the copyright holder and get distro rights from them. Depending upon the purpose, they may or may not want conmpensation for this but you need to get the legal rights to redistribute their works.

Can I legally sell a tribute video using iTunes downloads if I purchase each song for every DVD sold?
I think I know what you mean; That if you sell a CD with 10 songs and, you sold, say 10 CDs, if you bought EACH song, 10 times, would you be able to legally sell the CDs.





Do I have that right?





The answer is still no. What you purchase, anytime you make a retail buy, is the right to use the song for your own personal use. You do not purchase the copyrights, nor the right to resell that file.





"Fair use" copyright laws allow you to make a reasonable number of copies, again, for your own personal use, such as a back up CD copy, in case you lose one or it gets damaged. You can legally download a copy to, say your mp3 player and so on.





But the moment you either give the song away, or sell it, you are technically stealing from the publisher.





Basically, paying for the file (song) does not give you the right to sell it again.





Remember, even the free demo records that radio stations get don't allow them to broadcast the music without paying royalties. Radio stations have to keep very detailed song lists, 24 hour a day!