Background Music License

[CycleWriter]

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Music Copyright

Steve, what took you so long?

I want to clarify something that might not have been clear in your description of SmartSounds. There are two different levels of license with SmartSounds. Quicktracks allow only non-commercial use without royalty fees. This is what is included with VS. SmartSound Pro music collections provide licensed royalty-free music for any purpose. The cost of these collections reflects that as they are about 3-4 times what a Quicktracks compilation costs.

[sjj1805]

....Steve, what took you so long?
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Sorry guys I had a busy day fixing a friends computer. Took longer than expected as it turned out a piece of hardware was faulty. Lucky I had a spare in an old computer in my loft.

[skier-hughes]

In the UK if you record the disco playing you need a licence for that when videoing a wedding, also the organist etc at a church or music played at a civil ceremony and further ones if you wish to add your own copyright music in the edit.

Why do you think we went off and started our own country?

ROFL excellent

[meshuken]

During this discussion the term "Fair Use" appeared several times. In case you are want a more technical explanation of what that means, you can look here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

Yes, it's Wikipedia, but still pretty good...

By the way, I'm digging this new Ulead spellchecker! But did the forums really need to be offline two weeks to install it?

[Black Lab]

3,627 words, and I'm still not clear what it means.

By the way, I'm digging this new Ulead spellchecker!

Spelchecker? Wat spellcheker?

[meshuken]

Oh, ha! Actually it looks as if the spell checker arrived when I updated my Firefox browser, pretty cool... Nothing to do with Ulead though.

Anyway...

[millertcb]

I have a comment about all this copy right stuff. CycleWriter makes several comments about violating copyright and getting the proper permission. How is utube getting away with what they allow on the internet, and why is google paying over a billion dollars to buy that company? You would think that utube would be full of lawsuites from the big licensing houses.

I think there needs to be a major revamping so people like the guy filming the 3rd grade class and adding a music soundtrack can do without having to spend 30 hours trying to figure out how. This all reminds me of the Napster music stuff, and the industry finally got smart and figured out a way for people to download at a reasonable price. No one will ever pay thousands of dollars for a lic to make a school video with music on it.

[Black Lab]

Why don't you get to work on that.

Seriously though, that's a good point, and a great idea.

[CycleWriter]

How is utube getting away with what they allow on the internet, and why is google paying over a billion dollars to buy that company? You would think that utube would be full of lawsuites from the big licensing houses.

One of the first things that Youtube did when Google showed interest in buying them was to purge all the potentially copyrighted material from the site. Several entities had already pending copyright litigation with the site prior to purchase. They all had to be settled before the sale went through.

[thetanger]

I want to clarify something that might not have been clear in your description of SmartSounds. There are two different levels of license with SmartSounds. Quicktracks allow only non-commercial use without royalty fees. This is what is included with VS. SmartSound Pro music collections provide licensed royalty-free music for any purpose. The cost of these collections reflects that as they are about 3-4 times what a Quicktracks compilation costs.

Actually Cyclewriter, this isn't true. The INCLUDED smartsound quicktracks ARE royalty free and may be used however you wish including sales and broadcast. The only ones NOT approved are the MOVIE MUSIC series. That is a different series that is for sale on their site (not included with apps). They also have the normal royalty free high end music collections they sell as well.

I called SmartSound myself and got that information.

[Black Lab]

FYI:

Smartsound Music License

Movie Music License

[CycleWriter]

Actually Cyclewriter, this isn't true. The INCLUDED smartsound quicktracks ARE royalty free and may be used however you wish including sales and broadcast. The only ones NOT approved are the MOVIE MUSIC series. That is a different series that is for sale on their site (not included with apps). They also have the normal royalty free high end music collections they sell as well.

I called SmartSound myself and got that information.

I spoke with Eric at SS, as well. Movie Music is restricted, royalty free music for home and educational use. The collection that ships with VS and other video editing software is among those included with QuickTracks, according to him. They sell two tiers of music for video editors and content producers. From the website:
Our SmartSound Movie Music CDs give you plenty of additional cuts so you will always have just the right music for everything you shoot. Each CD features 10 selections ideal for the most popular types of videos. This great collection of CDs works with Pinnacle Studio, Ulead Video Studio 8 & 9, CyberLink PowerDirector 4 and all the SmartSound applications including: Movie Maestro, Quicktracks, SmartSound For Multimedia, and Sonicfire Pro - choose from 15 great CDs. This top-notch bundle of SmartSound Music is licensed for home and education use only.

[thetanger]

Yes, that's what I said in my post.

Only MOVIE music is restricted. Products that have the word "movie" attached to them. Those appeal specifically to the educational non-commercial market (and are add-on CD's but at a discount price.)

ALL OTHER Smartsounds can be used in any way including commercial products (including the Quicktracks that came with VS and other programs).

Are we all in agreeance on that?

[maddrummer3301]

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