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by A.K. Williams » Sat Jul 04, 2015 2:32 pm
Hi John C, note your problems with Youtube but, other than the attachment of ads which as Dave says can be skipped pretty much immediately, I had no problem at all with the upload or eventual broadcast.
When I first decided to upload to Youtube by the way, I was not a member of the IAC and spent something like a month trying to track down (and get answers from) the copyright holders of the two Pink Floyd tracks which feature in this film, turned out to be something of a minefield, for a start not all Pink Floyd material copyright is held by the same company and -it seems- copyright ownership changes hands like something in a card game. Eventually, it turned out, Warners (a fairly recent developmental off-shoot of Warner Bros. as far as I could tell) owned the copyright to these two tracks and so I sent them an e-mail pointing out my intentions (non-profit making, amateur level only, stupidity of war, WWI centenary year etc. etc.) and would they very kindly extend the use to me please of these two tracks at no cost of course for the purpose of putting this film together for which I would -of course- forever be eternally grateful. That was March of last year and I'm still waiting for a reply (in fact I've long since given up on a reply as you might imagine).
I'd been looking at joining the IAC for a while and one of the major attractions was the copyright flexibility which is available within the membership package and so signed up. I make it a rule these days to include the caption as you noted as an opening caption to any film I do and which might be seen outside the regular scope of friends and family if it contains mainstream (copyrighted) music or anything else, but that is not to say it is a 'catch-all' remedy nor that it will work every time, as with Dave Ws'. comments further high-lighting copyright difficulties and as I said up there somewhere and as I have to finally admit, I doubt that I (certainly) will ever fully understand the complexities of copyright law and a bit like the Warner Bros e-mail, have pretty much given up trying to.
Got to say also, that when I check my Youtube acc. this does not tell me that this film has gone 'viral' yet but when it does, I'll expect a bit more hassle.
Thanks for your comments by the way,
Tony Williams.
p.s. I always had the idea that featured artistes would not only be flattered (assuming certain standards) by inclusion of their work in anybodys' film, particularly when such things could serve only to increase their profile (and perhaps profits), but have come to understand that not many BIG names know (or particularly care perhaps) what's happening to their stuff these days and it is the 'bottom-line' which copyright holders hold dearest above all else.