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Started 8 years ago by nobody
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nobody
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I just want to know if it is okay to use music videos from dvds on a tv show (local tv station) without getting in trouble. If they do not know where I got the videos they can't sue me or they can? Also I will be giving free publicity to the singers. I think that music videos can be shown free because it isn't a movie, what do you think?

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Posted 8 years ago #
nobody
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I would say it's probably not a good idea. I'm almost %100 sure it's not legal, unless there's some little by-law I don't know about (which is possible). You should get professional legal advice or express WRITTEN permission from the artist or authorized rep before you try it. I doubt they'd go after you, but I wouldn't try it personally!

Posted 8 years ago #
browner
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You haven't told us if it is for a commercial entity, or a non-commercial, like a public access program.

Posted 8 years ago #
nobody
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Posted 8 years ago #
nobody
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If you transmit, copy or otherwise distribute copyrighted materials without the explicit consent of the copyright holder, you are in violation of the US copyright law, and could be sued by the copyright holder and be subject to criminal charges as well. It doesn't matter where you "get" the videos from. If you include a copyrighted video on your tv show, you must purchase a license.

The "free publicity" angle is fine, if you receive permission from the copyright holder. However, the 'singer' could make the same case from their point of view (e.g. You're using their videos to get free content to promote your show). I can guarantee that if the 'artist' is signed to a label, that label would be all over your case for using the video without permission. If their marketing plan for the artist doesn't include your show, they won't be interested in your "free publicity". As for your "videos vs. movies" supposition, frankly that's ridiculous. Do you think a radio station could play one song from an album and say, "well, it's only one song, not the whole album".

Here's the deal. To legally use copyrighted video and audio:
(a) you need to purchase a mechanical license from the publishing company that owns the material

(b) if you use copyrighted audio as a background for your own video content, you'd have to purchase a mechanical license and a synchronization license for the video.

Posted 8 years ago #

nobody
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I don't usually recommend anything but I recently purchased a very cool royalty free music CD from the Videomaker classifieds of my newest issue. You can check out examples of it at http://www.imaginemultimedia.com . I think these guys hit a homerun here. I really needed 3 music tracks of something different that I just couldn't get the right feel for and found all 3 on the CD. Affordable too. Kudos to Videomaker ads and Imagine for helping me find this gem!

Posted 8 years ago #

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