Re: Music copyrights and ferret videos Leslie wrote: >YouTube will not allow my video to be published on their site due to >the music. There is a new technology being used since Google bought >YouTube which recognizes music waves. This will now happen to most >videos submitted that contain music which isn't original. They also >plan to scan existing videos and will likely take down thousands of >them (my others included) There is an actual BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY for those who are able to create original ferret music (and others) for hire to those who want to use music legally for their You Tube recordings -- kind of like those who sell their own photos for uses. Many of those places are currently very expensive but people who are trying to break into music, or creating music in portions of music that are not high income (for example, much of folk and classical), or established musicians who write their own songs are all people who can sell limited uses of their own music for affordable prices and have a potential gold mine here if they market it right! There are basically 3 variants to music copyright but there are also special exceptions. In general most music that originated before 1978 most music copyrights are 90 years since first performance, and most music that originated after 1978 has copyright protection for 75 years after the death of the composers and lyricists. There can be some that are different like some hired music, ones based on performance but not on songwriting, and some special cases in which families have been allowed to extend copyright to an extreme degree such as the birthday song that begins "Happy birthday to you..." Now, there ARE older recordings out there, and there are some with variations as well as some that have been purchased especially to allow public useage. It may pay to check in archives of old recordings to learn some of those for You Tube usage. For instance, I think that they might be able to legally go "automobubbling": http://www.videosift.com/video/In-my-Merry-Oldsmobile because I think that and its rights were purchased for a public usage library by Brewster Kale (a wonderful person) BUT CHECK ME ON THAT BECAUSE I DO NOT RECALL SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THIS SONG AND VIDEO. Some recordings from the late 19th century and early 20th century are actually huge fun. Look up sites like Brewster Kale's and some universities' to find recordings that are out of copyright. (Some universities have free internet access to a number of classical books that are out of copyright, too, so you can just download them to your computer for reading.) Copyright gets very complex. For example, you own the rights to your FML post, so unless you give them permission others can not carry it to other sites, but Bill Gruber also has rights of use because it appeared on his site. In some cases the site owns anything submitted, but usually there is split ownership, and third parties can not legally steal your posts. It does happen all too often, though. Copyrights exist for images, written words, songs, etc. but the types vary and there are variations within the groupings. Copyright is such a muddle that unless you clearly know who owns the piece you can't assume, and some of the variations are so complex that you pretty much need a copyright lawyer. Sukie (not a vet) (and not a lawyer, just a friend of some musicians and the wife of one of the internet music invention pioneers -- and we don't own the patents to those) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html [Posted in FML 6281]