Agreeing with Ross, and more... Ross Gardler wrote:
> Debbee Williams wrote: > >> OK...to quote my frustrated 5 year old nephew, "I need help." >> >> I work for a non-profit organization, we have recently started providing >> digital arts programs. Creating movies, music, photo manipulation, etc. >> As part of the movies and some of the multi-media presentations we are >> doing, we are using music from copyrighted CD's as background. We >> started doing slide shows at an event highlighting activities for the >> year, while playing a CD in the background. Now we have advanced to >> creating short videos of the same thing, which are not only shown at a >> conference, but shared at board meetings and other gatherings where we >> want to showcase what we are doing. >> >> I have tried to locate if this is legal, if it falls under fair use, or >> what...but really haven't been able to navigate the US copyright laws >> very well. > > > This is not legal. You are publically broadcasting copytighted > material. To do this you need license (in the UK it is called a > Performing Rights Society license, I think that in the US the > equivalent is ASCAP http://www.ascap.com/about/). > > However, if you contact the copyright owners and explain your use you > will probably find that most will be willing to allow you to do this. > But to be legal you *must* have this in writing. > > Ross Concur. In fact, any country with a TRIPs agreement (I think the whole world...), these laws stick. As Ross suggested, there is a need to get a legal 'license' from the owner of the copyright - which is usually not the creator (artist, etc) of the work. But there is another option: CreativeCommons makes all sorts of material available under Creative Commons copyrights licenses which allows the uses you appear to need, without having to keep a big stack of letters. Video, audio, text... http://www.creativecommons.org -- Taran Rampersad [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxgazette.com http://www.a42.com http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net "Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
