Thursday, 23 January 2014

Why is it important to use copyright free music?

Our task for the sound lesson is to find copyright free music/sounds on Soundcloud and download it to insert it into a short clip from the movie 'Higher Learning'.  

It is important for you to use copyright free sounds/music in your work as if you don't you may be sued because you are breaking a law. 
Copyright is important as it protects artists from losing ownership of their work, and it gives them the legal right of ownership over their work. 
By using copyright free music it means that the work in which we have produced cannot be taken or removed off websites such as youtube. 

Copyrighted work can be used if paid for but only for certain uses and sometimes it's only for a certain period of time. Film producers and music people sometimes buy the right to use well known songs in the movies that they create, but even then there are sometimes limitations on just how much they can do with the stuff and they need to give references to the creator of the piece. 






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