Taran Rampersad wrote: (...) >>Debbee Williams wrote: (...) >>>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.
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, I was going to suggest the same thing when my computer crashed, lol. Debbee You can also search for specific content under a Creative Commons license, either from the search window in Firefox, or directly from the http://creativecommons.org/find/ page, where the search engine works with multiple entries.
BTW, the fact that you thank your sponsors doesn't make your presentation commercial.
You reminded me that the flash presentation of "Percorso Arianna" (http://www.vallemaggia.movingalps.ch/arianna/arianna1.html 3.3. Mb - a Gender and IT training project) that can be downoladed from http://www.vallemaggia.movingalps.ch/arianna/arianna.html also uses recorded and probably copyrighted music: they first made a CD-rom of it they used in the same way as you, then they slapped the mammoth online. I'd better let them know too, so thank you.
cheers
Claude
-- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch
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