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.
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