Friday 27 September 2013

Copyright


Copyright is a legal concept, used by most governments, giving the creator of an original piece of work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time, with the intention of enabling the creator of intellectual wealth to get compensated for their work and be able to financially support themselves. Generally, it is "the right to copy", but also gives the copyright holder the right to be credited for the work, to determine who may adapt the work to other forms. It is a form of intellectual property.

While many aspects of national copyright laws have been standardized through international copyright agreements, copyright laws of most countries have some unique features. Typically, the duration of copyright is the whole life of the creator plus fifty to a hundred years from the creator's death. 

It was important to consider copyright when creating our music video as the record company that owns the song "Sonnentanz" which we are doing may not give permission for us to use their music. In this case if we continue to use the song and create the music video we would be breaking the law as we need to be given their consent. We therefore, looked at who the record company was and we found out that it was Universal Music Group we then went on to there website and then went on to where it said contact us this is when we filled in the information below.

We are however, still waiting for a response back from Universal.




1 comment:

  1. You have made a start in explaining why music copyright is important within the music industry, but you need to ensure that you have referenced your research.

    Aim to include your response, once you have received it.

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