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How to deal with music copyrights and costs? #58

Open aschrijver opened 6 years ago

aschrijver commented 6 years ago

This is a sub-issue of https://github.com/humanetech-community/humanetech-community-awareness/issues/17

Before deciding what music to use in a video, we need to be able to listen to it, link to it, and share it around. Some investigation is required to find the options we have.

We should also try to get some info on the costs that are involved in using popular music, and how that adds up when a video becomes popular.

micheleminno commented 6 years ago

Youtube has this audio library of free to use and downloadable songs:

https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music

micheleminno commented 6 years ago

Maybe 'fair use' of copyrighted content (according to US law) is our best option, since our videos are non profit, somehow educational, and songs segments are there to highlight the point and message we want to convey with the video. Here's the list of best practices in fair use of music in videos.

aschrijver commented 6 years ago

Great resource, @micheleminno Could you add it to the Resources document under its own paragraph title?