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I've been reading some related threads - but I haven't seen one that comes right out and states that music CD's and the downloaded music content that I purchased from iTunes, is allowed when someone makes a 'movie' (or a video clip) and posts it on YouTube or similar social sharing sites. I believe that I can produce a video for my own personal use with copy-written music - FOR MY OWN PERSONAL use... right? It's jsut when the situation is that I want to post something on the internet - that I believe copy-written music may have a issue.
Is this where the 'magicmusic' (or maybe it's called something else or there are similar music substitutes) comes into play? Does this or other similar music NOT have the copy-write issues attached/associated to it?
Would "Royalty Free" music be allowed - legally - to be part of a video uploaded to YouTube (or the similar) sites?
CS
Hi, CS!
First of all I must correct you, it's not copy-write but copyright! Cpoy-write is when you take a printed sheet of content, then write on a blank sheet, verbatim, the content of the other sheet. Copyright, on the other hand, is the legal provision to protect a composer or author from unauthorised use of his/her work in a public performance. For example: copyright on a song like "Sweet Caroline", composed by Neil Diamond, is held three ways, by Diamond himself as the composer, by MCA, who hold the "mechanical" copyright(the recorded performance of the song) and finally by the music publishing company, and by extension, ASCAP or BMI, who act as public performance clearance agencies for that, among other songs or intrumental recordings. If you were a would-be singer, you wanted to perform that song in public(if you had nerve enough), you'd apply to ASCAP or BMI, pay a royalty fee and be given the right to perform that song, repeat the process as many times as required for the number of songs in your repertoire. That said, when it comes to Magic Music or Smartsound, these are supposed to be copyright-free, or "public domain", but I'm not too sure about it, as I've read in these forums of people getting stuck with claims against them when using such music in their clips. I'd probably play it safe and not use any music if I was going to cop any grief over it. If I were a talented musician(which I'm not), I could come up with some of my own music to put on the clip's soundtrack, much as JemRaid has done(anyone seen his work?).
My wideos are for private viewing only in any case so the point is moot. I may use commercial music(drive a car along gravel track: Duane Eddy's "40 Miles Of Bad Road" is a good choice of music), but no-one's going to see it beyond myself, my family and friends, either off a disc or a flash-drive.
Cheers!
Neil