Blog Post 3: What is Copyright?

While me and my partner Connor are making our music video, we will have to consider  about the music that we are going to be using. Since te music is probably going to be coming from the inernet we will have to worry about the copyrught laws which some companies have put into place so that we can avoid plagiarism.

Copyright is guaranteeing that the poduct that you create will not be recreated or used without your permission if you own the rights to the product. This is generally the case for movies, and song writers who do not want other people stealing their ideas and song words. If someone does break the protection of copyright then they could be sued and then have to pay a fine. This needs to be closely checked by me and my partner Connor that we have not violated any copyrights agreements as either we or the school can be sued. This is also the case on Youtube as they have a complex system which they check when you upload your video to their website in case the music that you have included in the video is copyrighted in which you can
not post it on the website and it will be removed.

In order to stop worrying about the copyright law, we will have to look for unsigned artists on te internet as they have not been signed by big labels so they will not mind us using their music as it is a lot more likely that by us using their music they will gain publicity on the internet and their music will most probably been heard by a much bigger fan base. In mine and Connors wok we have decided to use the music of My Chemical Romance but as they have ben split we will need to contact them by email to ask if we have permission to use their song in our work just so that we can avoid any copyight issues with them we are going to ask first.
Copyright is very essential for the movies and music business because them people will not be able to recreate the fork of other people and then be able to make a profit from it as it will then be unfair for the original creator of the work. But although people are trying their best to prevent the duplication of movies and songs there are still people who are able to create copies f movies and song through the internet.