Below, you'll find extensive information on leading
Your Online Video - the Real Price articles and products to help you on your way
to success.
Your Online Video May Cost You Thousands By Mike Bradbury You’ve just gotten married, and are traveling the world with your new spouse on your honeymoon. A good friend who filmed the wedding and reception has just finished putting together the footage. He has posted it on YouTube so you both can relive your wedding day on your honeymoon. The video is wonderful. It illuminates several moments you’d missed in the excitement of the day. Your friend has even included your song, Endless Love, as the background for the video. After the honeymoon, as you unpack the doorbell rings. Opening the door you find a man asking for your signature for a package. You think, "Which aunt or uncle must be sending money"? When the deliveryman smiles, hands you the package and says, "You’ve been served." you are surprise and horrified. Confused, you tear the package open to find a lawsuit for $10,000 for copyright infringement. You wonder to yourself--could this be right? How did I infringe any copyrights? Out of curiosity you scan the pages of the lawsuit for a logical explanation. Then you find it: "the illegal use of Endless Love by Lionel Ritchie and Diana Ross in your wedding video posted on YouTube". With all the attention YouTube has gotten from the Viacom lawsuit for $1 billion for unauthorized distribution and infringe of copyright laws, everyone has overlooked a possible next wave of lawsuits to come. Those are for the vast majority of online videos that are made by small home videographers who have included in their videos that has not been licensed for use. Typically publishers and record labels have turned a blind eye to home and wedding videographers who produce their own work. Shared with an audience of usually less then 10 close personal friends and family, these home videographers have all but been ignored for years. This was before sites like You Tube, Google Video, ChickShack, AsSeenInVT and a handful of others began creating an outlet for anyone with a video camera. Now home videographers need to be warned. You may soon find yourself involved in lawsuits for illegal use of a copyrighted protected musical recording, the fines for which could be in excess of $15,000 per song. Remember how fiercely the recording industry went after everyone from children to old ladies who downloaded songs from sites like Napster? It may be only a matter of time until they start going after videographers in the same manner. Most home videographers are unaware of the limitations on using copyright protected music. The vast number of home Videographers wrongly assume that they can synchronize or place any they want in their video production. In the past, a small home and wedding Videographer would usually get away with this. The problem is these wannabee Quentin Tarantino’s have now begun distributing their productions to more then just a few friends and family. A video loaded online has the potential market of hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of viewers, and if you’ve created something popular using YouTube,
you may be the next victim. Local TV stations in America can pay tens of thousands of dollars for licensing for their stations. This price can go into the millions if they desire to use popular artists songs. For Videographers who have uploaded productions onto sites like YouTube and are now nervous, let me educate you a bit on how licensing works. Simply put, copyright laws state that any under copyright protection may not be used for any kind of video production, media presentation, websites, etc--that is, without approval from the copyright owner. Several types of licenses are usually required. These may include some or all of the following: Synchronization, Performance and Master licenses.
Now before you stress over the fact that no one will see your masterpiece or that big the bad RIAA is coming to get you -- there is a solution. First, you must remove the copyrighted you have in your videos. Then you have the option to either write your own for your video (most of us are not musically creative enough to go this route) - or license from an Online Production Library. Online Production Libraries typically lease from their catalogs on either an individual per use basis, called a drop, or blanket licenses that will cover an entire project. The advantages of online production libraries are the scope, depth and breadth of the catalogs. Pricing ranges greatly, depending on many variables. Most production libraries do not create specifically for amateur videographers, but Recently, an L.A. based production library called TunEdge announced it would give special licensing for web distribution. TunEdge is providing access to their online catalog and for a reasonable fee their can be licensed specifically for online creations.
This article was coauthored by Mike Bradbury and Joel Thatcher. Joel is a senior employee of Tunedge Production Music. Tunedge provides production music solutions for professionals and amateurs alike through an online interface. Mike is an analyst for Objectware, Inc, an Atlanta web design company.
We strive to provide only quality articles, so if there
is a specific topic related to music that you
would like us to cover, please contact us at any time.
And again, thank you to those contributing daily to our
Your Online Video - the Real Price website.
Seela and Lala Yesterday I made my first ever visit to End of an Ear to hear Seela and 3/4 of Torch do a record release show for their latest, Charmed.I CAN HAS SQUIRRELATOR? My small contribution to the lolcats meme.Aestheticians and infrastructuralists I'm enjoying the Kerr/Vielmetti cabal's Weird Professional Identity Descriptions.Texas claustrophobia, and a mystery town There are times when the miles and miles of Texas feel like walls, not spaces.Mueller spillover with a modern touch Depressed at Mueller prices I drove the nearby neighborhoods and found some aesthetic relief, if no hopeful signs for my wallet.Grokking grok Here's a shock: young people don't grok grok.Mueller marts, both mega and mini At Tuesday's Mueller meeting, Jim Adams of ROMA Design had troubling things to say about grocery stores.Bad news in the Mueller HOA Thanks to Marcus Sanford, I now have copies of two of the Mueller Homeowners' Association documents and they're not a pretty sight.My Mueller HOAphobia As part of my Mueller research I've also asked about the homeowner's association.Mueller Central phase 1 layout and prices Tuesday and Wednesday I made it into Mueller Central and an affordable home seminar offered by Catellus and David Weekley.Austin shibboleths My current obsession with all things Mueller raises the question of local pronunciations.Semiliveblogging the Mueller opening Mueller's unveiling of plans and prices is in 10 minutes, but it's for "builders, dignitaries and media" only, scruffy self-described bloggers not included.Volunteers wanted for Mueller community study An iSchool classmate of mine is doing a study of the information needs of prospective residents, neighbors and small business owners in the Mueller neighborhood.
Additional Related
Resources
It Is Time To Learn A Lil Something About The Slide Guitar By Harold Meeks Some people may be familiar with the different styles of music being played on guitars, one of these wonderful styles of music comes from what is called the slide guitar. Everyone has a different Read more...
High School Musical Star Denies Rivalry By Groshan Fabiola The recent success of High School Musical 2 sent fans into a frenzy as it aired this weekend in the Disney Channel. The cast has been blessed with yet another hit, however, rumors have it that a Read more...
Music Artist 30 Seconds To Mars Bio By chris cabrea 30 Seconds to Mars was created in 1998 by Jared Leto and his brother, Shannon, and it really just started as a small family project. Things began to speed up quickly, however, and Matt Wachter later Read more...
Christmas Carol Songs By Rajan Kumar Christmas carol songs are almost synonymous to the festival of lights and seem to form an integral part of Christmas celebrations. In fact no Christmas celebrations can be Read more...
