I made an iMovie on the basis of stills only, using 3 pictures found on the internet (Wikipedia, Webshots) and music of my iTunes. Is sharing this movie (images, sound) on social netsites as YouTube or Vimeo free - clearly NOT intended for commercial reasons, or do I need permissions first?
iMac11,3 (2.8 GHz Intel Core i5), Mac OS X (10.6.6), 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
• double-clicking any picture in Wikipedia brings up the info, wether the pic is CC or has limitations in publishing it
• you don't 'own' 'your' music in iTunes ... you have limited usage-rights, esp. for commercial music you do NOT have any rights to publish it in any form (as 'on YT').
• double-clicking any picture in Wikipedia brings up the info, wether the pic is CC or has limitations in publishing it
• you don't 'own' 'your' music in iTunes ... you have limited usage-rights, esp. for commercial music you do NOT have any rights to publish it in any form (as 'on YT').
As said, the music of my iTunes "soundtrack" is only intended to share within a community and certainly NOT to commercial intentions. How do other people do this on 'YT' and the like; is the majority of music I hear on these sites rather illegal then?
pdrcourious wrote:
... is the majority of music I hear on these sites rather illegal then?
simple answer: YES! 🙂
I received two 'blue letters'/cease and decist from YouTube, 'cause I replaced the music in live-scenery by parts of same track from my iTunes collection (to get a solid audio track). the YT-filters (machine or Bangladore) identify commercial music fast - esp. when bought in iTS, it seems, it contains a 'watermark', which instantly tells YT "who owns this?"
in terms of legal/illegal: some are tolerant, some not. but YOU don't have any rights to publish any 'found' music (pictures, videos, maps, graphics, buildings, art, ......................)
I tought a seminar on this issue, without being an advocat ... in theory, 99% of YouTube has to be pulled.
OK, I get this 'unhappy' message.
So, nobody will ever know what they are missing 😉, although I did mention all this music and found images on the iMovie's title roll, specifically to respect each one's rights (even as I never got any reaction from the identified owners to my asking them for their permission; no interest obviously...).
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