Quite usually it comes down to this symbol:
For anyone who is new to the concept of copyright (and if you are new to it, what the hell have you been doing? :-D), it essentially a tag where if someone has a legal right to this process. Any major brand song? That's copyrighted to the music artist.
Now I could copy and paste an entire law stuff, but if you are really interested in the ins and outs of the copyright laws, click this link here: http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p01_uk_copyright_law
I won't go too into the copyright laws, but how it affects me as a film-maker and others like me is what we can use for free and what we need permission for.
For a lot of film-makers out there, we need resources we can use to help construct our videos. One of the biggest examples of these is music.
We can't go using tracks willy-nilly without peoples permission if a piece of music is copyright. For example: If I wanted to use one of Eminem's new tracks Berserk in a video of mine, I would need the creators permission to use it in my video and this permission would most likely include us giving the artists royalties (money) in return for using their track.
(There is a lot of text here, so I just wanted to break it up with a meme thats slightly relevant)
If we film-makers want to make some money off a film by monetising something or by using it for commercial purposes, we need copyright free or royalty free music.
With copyright free/ royalty free music we can use the tracks provided to us for whatever we want as long as we either credit the creator or in some cases pay for them.
It is true however, that you can see a lot of Youtube videos using popular tracks without the creator's permission. Now this is against copyright to use these tracks without their permission and without crediting them, but Youtube is a very lenient place for this stuff.
And I wouldn't think that the creators of these tracks would be searching 24/7 to find people who have used their tracks without their permission. There is just too much content in Youtube to comb over.
The problem for us film-makers how can we get music we can use for free?
There are 3 solutions to this problem:
1. Compose your own music
2. Get permission to use copyrighted tracks for free
3. Use Copyright Free Music
For me, because I'm not the most musically talented person, I use a lot of Copyright Free Music in my videos. I do compose music the odd time, but in order to save time its better to bring in tracks that are up and ready to go. If you believe you are musically talented enough to create your own music, be my guest. I may make another blog post later down the line showing you how to make a basic soundtrack for a video. But if you are looking for tutorials on how to compose, look here for tutorials on one of the most basic tools, GarageBand: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/How_to_score_with_GarageBand
To help out anyone who does want to copyright free music, I have a list of places where you can get these tracks here at the bottom of this Blog post. I also have included a video created by Indy-mogul who covers the topic and what to look out for when using them as well having some links of their own to copyright free music.
Hope this is of some use to you!
http://www.youtube.com/user/FreebieFM
http://www.purple-planet.com/
http://www.royaltyfreemusicfree.com/
http://www.gumballmusic.com
http://www.downloadroyaltyfreemusic.org
http://www.royaltyfreeze.com
http://www.luckstock.com
http://dig.ccmixter.org/
http://www.jamendo.com/en/
http://www.musopen.org/
http://www.nosoapradio.us/
http://www.machinimasound.com/
http://www.firstcom.com/
http://www.freesound.org
http://www.sweetsoundeffects.com
http://www.mobygratis.com/film-music....
http://incompetech.com
http://joshwoodward.com
http://freemusicarchive.org
http://royaltyfreekings.com
http://mattmcfarland.com
http://audionautix.com
http://anthonykozar.net/music
http://freemusicforvideos.com
http://beatsroyaltyfree.com
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