Music licences / copyright questions
Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 1:33 pm
I buy the dubbing etc licences in with my membership. Could someone outline
the detail of the four shows to general audiences exemption for me that I
spotted a few days ago in the small print. Is that:-
- per year / per production?
- per production over the liftime of it?
- four shows in total per year?
So far nothing is close to four shows over and above the local Camera Club
but I do have three shown, individually, now at least once to non-camera
club audiences. I am trying to stay legal on these music issues.
Secondly.
I use the Pinnacle Studio 8 software and occasionally use it to generate
short bits of background music as fill using the SmartSound option it includes.
My current production has some gaps between narration and my own recorded
external sounds where I could use SmartSound to fill in the gaps or a commercial
recording. If I use commercial stuff I know I can't copy it to give to friends
etc. Does anyone know if the SmartSound feature generates music that is
distributable as I would like to pass copies of this particular collection
of my archive footage around to friends.
The Studio manual does not say one way or the other about legality of the
music the product generates. However as in the section about ripping CD
music into the film project there is not even a footnote to advise that,
without licences, this is an illegal copyright breach I suspect it wouldn't
say that on the SmartSound page either or advise that the generated music
has no copyright issue associated with it. Note - I am treating it with
caution until I find out it is copyright clear.
John.
the detail of the four shows to general audiences exemption for me that I
spotted a few days ago in the small print. Is that:-
- per year / per production?
- per production over the liftime of it?
- four shows in total per year?
So far nothing is close to four shows over and above the local Camera Club
but I do have three shown, individually, now at least once to non-camera
club audiences. I am trying to stay legal on these music issues.
Secondly.
I use the Pinnacle Studio 8 software and occasionally use it to generate
short bits of background music as fill using the SmartSound option it includes.
My current production has some gaps between narration and my own recorded
external sounds where I could use SmartSound to fill in the gaps or a commercial
recording. If I use commercial stuff I know I can't copy it to give to friends
etc. Does anyone know if the SmartSound feature generates music that is
distributable as I would like to pass copies of this particular collection
of my archive footage around to friends.
The Studio manual does not say one way or the other about legality of the
music the product generates. However as in the section about ripping CD
music into the film project there is not even a footnote to advise that,
without licences, this is an illegal copyright breach I suspect it wouldn't
say that on the SmartSound page either or advise that the generated music
has no copyright issue associated with it. Note - I am treating it with
caution until I find out it is copyright clear.
John.