around the 5/9/05 Randolfe Wicker mentioned about Re: [videoblogging] Various types of permission forms that: >Actually a lot of vloggers use music they don't have a license for >in their vlogs. The fact is that no one bothers "suing them" >because their using the music has virtually no real impact. >
this is nonsense. I can't say that strongly enough. Get slashdotted and your music will matter. Get shown via *any* commercial media and your music will matter. People once said this about anything on the web, it is not the case now. Just because big media haven't caught on, doesn't mean that when they do, they won't play serious catch up. >Yes, vlogging could be considered to be one step up from home >movies. With vlogging you can share what might otherwise be home >movies with friends, even the whole world if the whole world was >interested enough to drop by and watch them. absolutely not. a home movie is played to your immediate family/friends in home. It is not broadcast/distributed. A blog is a publication. In video sales if you buy a home VHS tape and show it to a school group, you've broken the law. The home VHS is for home use only. The copy you buy for schools is for showing to a group and (usually) costs approx. 10 x the domestic cost. Such things exist and are standard practice. that this might be breached every now and then, just like photocopying a whole book because you can't get your own copy, doesn't make it legal. Minor moments don't matter, when it becomes a standard practice, it does. > >Technically, you might be right insofar as "legalities" are >concerned. However, like those labels that they used to have on >cigarette packages which said it was illegal "not" to break them, a >lot of laws are really ignored. which is what napster thought. Which is what lots of low budget film makers thought until their film can't be legally shown anywhere. There *are* stories of people who have film screened, only to receive letter from legal firm requesting tens of thousands of dollars since that is how much the rights to the lyrics/music costs. I really think videobloggers are naive if they think these rules don't apply to them. Without clearance your material cannot be shown in awards/festivals and cannot be broadcast. Basically you don't want to be the person that is the first one pursued for this, because the industry will not play nicely. -- cheers Adrian Miles hypertext.RMIT <URL:http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vlog> ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
