just a little warning

If videoing anything with music in it best not to put it onto youtube as public . I noticed on a couple of mine (now I removed) the music I had a copyright which I was not aware of.
These videos were of aerial acrobats performing on board a cruise ship to copyright music.

Nothing to prevent recording for private personal viewing or videoing unless informed in advance

So something to be aware of

Re: just a little warning

It's those bastards at Sony, they won't allow even a few seconds of their music to be used even though any other company would accept that it falls under the "fair use" legislation. If you protest you can claim fair use and in my experience most companies will accept this, not Sony. Some companies even use your video to advertise their music by putting a small notice near it saying where the music can be purchased, again not Sony.

The only other option is to use the music that Youtube provides under creative commons licence in their audio library. There are also plenty of websites that offer copyright free music under the same licence that you can download and add to your videos.

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Thanks for the warning, does explain why a wedding a friend posted was taken down, we couldn't see anything wrong with the flash dance butitwas obviously the music.

Re: just a little warning

As far as I can tell, if it is music performed by "live" bands it is ok unless otherwise stated


. It is the recorded music and played which is the type to be careful of.


We had some company called "The performing rights Society" contact us when we had the kennels. They demanded to know if we played piped music for clients when they came to the kennels. In which case we would have to pay to play it

GOT YOU we have radios on all day for the dogs to make them feel more at home.

They never bothered us any more

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I see. Ours was on a tape the original artists singing so that would make sense.

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My son is a professional photographer and videographer and he always ensures that he uses "free" music, available on the web. Just as his pictures are copyright, so is music.