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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Help! Need some NEW mmusic for my sports slideshow/video | |
This post will go in one of two directions. It's vague enough but given the "go to's" and "released in the last couple of years" my assumption is that you plan to download some popular / mainstream music to use in your slideshow?
BIG NO NO!!!
You as an individual do not have the rights to use the song and distribute it. If you contact the record label or artist, the odds are that you either would not be able to afford said licensing or it would be cost prohibitive.....
2 Possible routes, both of which I have used.
1) Go to triple scoup, find some music, purchase a license based on the usage and a way you go......money goes to the people who produced the tracks, kind of like a media outlet paying for usage of one of your shots.
2) In my area the schools have the rights to play popular / mainstream music at their venues. You do the slideshow with NO AUDIO and get the school to play the audio if this is being presented at an awards banquet. The School does not have permission to distribute the slideshow with the song either. They can simply play music in the gym while it is being shown.
As a photographer it is on US to make sure we do this properly. We are the first people to rush in here and bitch and moan when someone uses our images without permission or proper licensing, so let's not do it to others like musicians.
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