People love and need music. It is right up there with air, water, food and the perfect dress.
If I don't record because of the accidental music in the background I miss out on many public activities and encounters. Next, I would be avoiding people in clothing, especially t-shirts cuz they have logos or copyrighted slogans. This would be followed by not shooting cars because of the particular paint job on the vehicle is a special color by the manufacturer. Then there are "public" buildings that are now off limits. If we let this self-censorship continue there will be nothing left but recording naked bodies standing absolutly still. (Hold on, not a bad idea!) These are the times that we occupy. Yes, we do have to respect copyrights and artists fair compensation. I do not steal music or anything else. But I will not stop recording because someone (that I have no control of) has music in the background. If is not fair nor would it be a truthful representation of what I saw and observed. We can lose a lot of history this way. Damn the RIAA and live in defiance! Gena http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com ********************* --- In [email protected], Randolfe Wicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ------------------------ 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/
