[videoblogging] Is there any way to remove music alone from a vlog's soundtrack?

[Randolfe Wicker]

There have been numerous debates here about personal legal and financial vulnerability for using unlicensed music intentionally or accidentally in a vlog.  These problems seem to be almost endless in their complexity.  For instance, Steve Watkins writes: "I use copyrighted music and then give my videoblog away with > derivatives permitted, or even redistribution permitted, the license > wont stand up in court? Because I don't have the rights too the > original work I used, I cant give those rights away to anyone else?"   I can imagine how terrible it would be to create a work incorporating a vlog like the one described above only to discover you didn't have the "legal rights" you believed you had been given to use the material.   If you read the frightening details about how the lack of music licenses can prevent the showing of otherwise original video--say an interview taped with unwanted but identifiable music playing in the background in a bar or even on a beach with someone's radio playing many feet away--you have to wonder why (or if) someone has devised a way to eliminate such unwanted background noise from a soundtrack?   If this is not possible at the moment, one has to think that it could be at least technologically possible.  Wouldn't that be a help to everyone.  I find myself almost crazed while shooting footage in a location and then realizing I probably won't be able to use it because some passer-by has a boom box booming. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker   Videographer, Writer, Activist Advisor: The Immortality Institute Hoboken, NJ     SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.