Tuesday 28 January 2014

P1. Use of music - legal considerations

Publishing rights are rights owned by the music publisher and include melody and lyrics. The recording rights are the recording of the song (i.e the actual sound that comes off of a CD, MP3 Record, and so on) it is a separate work of creative expression so it has its own rights.
If the Composer had died for over seventy years then the copyright would have of expired and there is no need to seek clearance for the composition, but you will need get clearance from the owner of the recording right. Incidental music is music for an advert, TV programme, radio, game video. Incidental music isn't primarily music. It can also be called soundtrack, or film score.

Creative Commons is a non profit organisation created in America. They created several copyright licenses called creative commons licenses free for those who use it (the general public). It was created to expand the range of creative works available to build upon legally and share to there friends.



Attribution:  This lets people do anything to the piece of work an even distribute as long as they credited you for the original creation. 

Attribution-ShareAlike: This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.


Attribution-NoDerivs: This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.

Attribution-NonCommercial: This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike  This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivsThis license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.

For my project I was looking for a happy up beat tune which is completely instrumental so that it doesn't disrupt the video footage. The sound was going to played underneath the letter reading scene. I got the sound from www.freesound.org and is licensed under the non-commercial license.

https://creativecommons.org
 www.freesound.org


 




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