Copyright Post

Copyright law is designed to give the creator or publisher the sole purpose to distribute there including the right to sell and receive payment for that reproduction.Violation of a copyright is called infringement. This is used within the music industry to protect artists work and insure that the artist is gaining profits from there own song.

We had to apply for copy right to get permission from the artists record label so we could use the song and produce our music video. If this step wasn't complete our video is at risk of having our video taken down, and legal action taken against us. To gain permission for using Nina Nesbitt's song 'Apple Tree' we had to send an email to 'universal' which is her record label.

Originally copyright was a way for the government to restrict other people from re-branding someone else’s work without their consent, enabling them to also receive monetary rewards/payments for the sale of the end product. This policy keeps artist’s reassured that their work will continue to make money and profit without any hassle. The typical duration of a copyright agreement is the whole of the creator’s life +50. If someone is to break the copyright law that is put in place, it is known as infringement. We had to apply for copyright in order to create our music video on ‘Apple Tree’, otherwise my group run the risk of our video being removed from YouTube with legal action taken against us and leaving the examiner to think no video has been produced, therefore breaking copyright guidelines. To do so it consisted of sending an email requesting the artists record label for permission, which for our particular song was ‘Universal’.