In CAP 10's upcoming dystopian movie trailers, a project that involves making a movie trailer for a hypothetical dystopian movie, most, if not all of the trailers will include music or sound effects in some way.
Some music that can be found online is in the public domain, meaning that the creator no longer owns it, but more often than not, is not in the public domain. Even if it is, permissions from the liscenser, recording company, etc. are needed to use the music without infinging on copywright laws.
Sites such as ccmixter.org and freesound.org are good scources for music that is (mostly) copywright free. These sites use a special type of copywright called Creative Commons or CC. Depending on the specific type of CC, the arist may require that their name be in your credits, that you ask permission before using, or meet some requirement. These artists are typically very small, and may do thier own recording and editing.
The difference between this kind of "attribution music" and songs from popular artists such as The Strokes, Ellie Goulding, or any other artist; is that it is much more difficult to obtain permissions to use these works. In order to use these works, one typically needs to obtain permission from both the artist or band, as well as the publisher, record company, or liscencer. This is somewhat more difficult, and these institutions may ask for both credit and for a sum of money to be paid.
Interestingly though, record companies think it a waste of time to give permission or issue a liscense unless money is being made of of the showing of a video with the music in it. Based on my expirience, record companies rarely, if ever, reply about using a piece of music in a school or personal film. If they do reply, it is only to say that they don't want to spend the time issuing a legal liscense, and just to use it anyway if it is a project that does not generate revenue.
The laws on copywright, as well as the obscure interpretation of these laws, are both extensive and difficut to understand. One typical law, for example, is that if the song is "significantly altered" (remixed) then it is concidered a new work. Well, what constitutes "significantly altered"?
Even though using Creative Commons Liscensed songs is clearly easier to deal with and offers more defined rules than copyrighted music, if the song is only for school or personal projects, the use copywrighted material is usually accepted, and should be allowed for use in school projects.
P.S. I saw the movie "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" tonight, there may be a movie review in the near future. IT WAS AWESOME! Here's the trailer.
"Is west a copy of east?
or east a copy of west?
are both just altered north?"
-Zepher
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