Posted by Bill on 12/11/06 14:22

Thanks for an eloquent illustration of why copyright holders need to
lighten up.

Colin B wrote:
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> After reading the contributions in this thread, I doubt whether I will ever
> submit any video to these web sites. I really don't want people to call me a
> thief and start suing me. A while ago, I made a nice little video of a group
> of music students playing together in a youth orchestra. I filmed this at
> the request of one of the students and with the permission of the leader of
> the group. But if I was to submit this to Youtube, I would first need to
> ensure that I applied for copyright approval for all the music they played.
> And I guess I would also need the approval of each and every one of the
> students as well.
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> I know that most people wouldn't bother doing these things, but because you
> have all told me that I would be a thief and would be personally liable if
> one of the music composers didn't like hearing his music played by this
> orchestra on internet, I won't upload the film to Youtube. One of the pieces
> was by Mozart, but I'm not sure how I'll get his approval, he hasn't been
> around for a while. In fact, I'm not even sure that I should give this video
> to the student because I guess I would be responsible as the filmmaker if
> she were to submit my film to Youtube without getting proper copyright
> approvals first?
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> I also thought about uploading to Youtube some of my film of our young baby
> daughter eating a meal and spreading all the food right across her face. We
> all thought it was hilarious, but there's one problem, we had some music
> playing in the background. Darn it, I can't upload this either because
> someone will say I've stolen the music. I don't even know the name of the
> piece of music that was playing or who the composer was, but it's not worth
> the time trying to find out and then getting copyright approval. Sorry
> world, you won't get to see my daughter after all, and of course, she
> wouldn't approve either. At least the composer of this piece of music won't
> be driven out of business as a result of my unintentional thieving of his
> work.
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