Copyright is imperative. The Copyright Law is designed to give the creator or publisher the ability to distribute a product including the right to sell and receive payment for their reproduction of the original product. Any violation of a copyright is known as infringement, something we must avoid! This is used within the music industry to protect artists work and insure that the artist is gaining profits from their song therefore a benefit to the artist. Overall, copyright protects the original artist/publisher from having their work copied directly.
Without at least applying for permission, we are unable to proceed planning, producing and publicly publishing our music video. If we did not, we would be at risk of having our video taken down from YouTube which would lead to legal action taken against us.
The artist we have chosen to use is Nina Nesbitt. We identified after conducting secondary research that she belongs to Universal Record Group. After this step, we had to conduct further secondary research to gain a contact form. The method of contact we decided to use was e-mail.
| Below is evidence of the exact e-mail I sent to the following address to apply for copyright: info@umusic.com I sent this e-mail 27th September 2013 12:55pm as proved below: |
This post demonstrates a good understanding of what music copyright is and why it is important.
ReplyDeleteInclude your response from your record company, when you have received it