Let’s help build a killer index for FREE royalty-free music. Ever search for free music online? How about royalty-free music? It’s hard to find good stuff. Now let’s complicate it further. Free, royalty-free music? Nearly impossible. But the need is there, and the benefit is high for: Viewers/listeners: Who can discover new talent, and enjoy…
hot off the press… A YouTube for All of Us As a community, we have come to count on each other to be entertained, challenged, and moved by what we watch and share on YouTube. We’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to make the collective YouTube experience even better, particularly on our most…
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What’s better than my previous list of free and royalty-free music and sound effects? A longer list, which includes video effects too! Thanks to you, we’ve got a few new ones to share. Let me remind you that I’m tagging this entry “hellen keller” so we can all find it easily later using the Orb…
Copyright Law is probably the most misunderstood of all law pertaining to copyrights. I wrote that myself. So it helps to get some guidance from Mark Levy, who specializes in intellectual property law, and wrote a piece on “What’s Legal: Producer’s Rights” in a recent issue of VideoMaker. The least you need to know: Copyright…
Below are some video montages that will soon get removed by YouTube, resulting from the inevitable DMCA notices that Wired freelance photographer Lane Hartwell will send (when she’s finished wrapping presents and invoicing strangers). Per my earlier post, Hartmwell took action against The Ricter Scales for using a second of her photo in their “Here…
I try to be fairly objective on this blog, but I really have no sympathy for whining photographers that hire attorneys because their photos appear for a second in a popular YouTube video. The photographers, like the writers striking, are under the delusion that they’re being deprived of their rightful income. The reality is that…
Here at WillVideoforFood, there is nothing we love more than when one of our posts gets linked to and talked about. And like the majority of other blogs out there, we try to be good citizens by linking back to any source from which we excerpt. But there is a growing minority of spam blogs,…
Remember that YouTube yanked Christopher Knight’s clip because Viacom complained? Well it’s back. Here’s the note he got from YouTube. Dear Kwerky, In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we’ve completed processing your counter-notification dated x/xx/xx regarding your video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddyVQwpByug This content has been restored and your account will not be penalized. Sincerely, Harry…
(This is my video rant on this subject) Note to public relations professions everywhere. Don’t let your company turn into the poster child for copyright insanity. In one of the more tasteless moves yet, the company used an independent film maker’s video on its hopelessly unfunny Web Junk 2.0 show without permission. Then when the…