Copyright Infringment

[mda1974]

My 4 month old daughter loves her babybounce so I was taking some video of her yesterday.

I sudnely thought that it would be quite funny if I put House Of Pain, Jump Around as the backing track behind it. So a few minutes using iMovie and it was done.

Now to let a few freinds see it I tried to upload it to facebook but got an e-mail back saying it had been removed due to copyright infringment.

I guess technically it is but just seems a bit harsh.

Anyway, does anyone have contact details for House Of Pain so I can get their permission to use it?

[Kieron]

Same sort of thing happened to us. Good friend used a track as background music to a daft skydiving video of us in Vegas.

Youtube silenced it.

Fair enough I guess - it's not my audio but you'd expect there to be some sort of "fair use" policy in this day and age.

[Earthworm Jim]

HOUSE OF PAIN on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Videos

[Iccz]

Originally Posted by Kieron

Same sort of thing happened to us. Good friend used a track as background music to a daft skydiving video of us in Vegas.

Youtube silenced it.

Fair enough I guess - it's not my audio but you'd expect there to be some sort of "fair use" policy in this day and age.

Fair use as dictated by the RIAA (and similar) is no use at all sadly

Even sampling a couple of seconds of stuff can get you in trouble, whether it's profit or damaging to the artist etc, not that they bother to police such small things where quality isn't good... but still, rules is rules.

[kBm]

What about people who sing & perform thier own cover version of a song and stick it on YouTube, i'm sure they have not got permission from the record label to use thier material?

You don't see that get taken down?

[JagoPlasma]

funny i thought this was sorted out years ago, and aslong as you werent blatantly trying to distribute it as music then you were fine. guess its changed since!

[Iccz]

Aren't a lot of sites like YouTube, MySpace, Facebook etc using wave recognition though? So it's not really taking into account how the song is being used or what for, just removing it based on the fact that the waveform found in the video/song hits a match with the one in the library.

That is why, to my knowledge, people singing are not taken down, and also I believe stuff recorded on poor quality devices such as mobile phones etc.

I could be wrong, and am open to correction here...

[mrtbag]

For a few of my Youtube videos, I've just had an e-mail stating that the record company/copyright owner will link to other videos of theirs from my page. So basically, I use their track, they use my page for advertising. Everybody is a winner.

[unique]

The Home Video Prince Doesn't Want You to See - ABC News

i guess you never heard about this?

A bouncing YouTube baby has be-bopped his way right into the legal cross-hairs of the pop star Prince, sparking a lawsuit that could test the boundaries of U.S. copyright law.



Holden Lenz, 18 months old, is the pajama-clad star of a 29-second home movie shot by his mother in the family's rural Pennsylvania kitchen and posted last February on the popular video site YouTube.
In the video, the child is seen bouncing and swaying for the camera, as, faintly, the Prince hit "Let's Go Crazy" plays on a CD player in the background.

Twenty eight people, mostly friends and family, had viewed the YouTube video by June, when mom Stephanie Lenz said she received an e-mail from YouTube informing her that her video had been removed from the site at the request of Universal Music Publishing Group, the recording industry's largest label, and warning her that future copyright infringements on her part could force the Web site to cancel her account.

Prince lashes out at YouTube, eBay and The Pirate Bay | News Blog - CNET News

how dare a baby steal royalties from royalty himself!

[Knyght_byte]

I think the problem is not so much that YOU are using the music (nobody in particular btw, generic you), but that Youtube, Facebook etc will be getting revenue due to it.

If you had a bouncing baby with some background beats from Blue on your own website, i doubt anyone would give a monkeys at the music studio company....mainly because a few dozen people will see it and there is no real gain for anyone.

Shame as it makes cute human stuff impossible nowadays, but hey ho, thats the world we live in..