Applying for music copyright
Copyright gives the creators of some types of media rights to control how they're used and distributed. Music, books, video and software can all be covered by copyright law. It is used within the music industry as it allows record labels to protect their artists work incase of fraud, it also means that the artist can claim their work as their own and take all credit if the song is used by other artists, for example if there is a remix of the song.
We had to apply for copyright to use the song we wanted to include the artists song, for this we had to email the record label so we could get their permission to use their work. If we did not ask for permission we could not plan, publish and distribute our work publically and could risk 'infringement' which is something we are trying to avoid if we want to publish our work with the artists song included. If we did not ask for permission we could risk our work being taken down from YouTube and legal action taken against us. Therefore, we emailed the record label that Paloma Faith belongs to so that if they say yes, we could use the song.
We never received a response from our record label as we understand that record labels are very busy and don't always have the time to reply to all emails that they receive. My group and i are still going to continue to plan and filming our Paloma Faith music video.
This post demonstrates some understanding of what the purpose of music copyright is and the role it has to creating a production.
ReplyDeleteInclude your response from your record label, once you have received it.