Fair use laws simply state that any song that is copyrighted can be used in a movie if you make sure that it says the band name and song, and possibly the album. Therefore, you're free to use any song that is copyrighted by a legal entity (record company/solo artist).
Um, no. The copyright holders can still sue you in civil court for infringement (especially if said holders sell their work commercially, as it is a record label's business to do). Artists who release their work for free usually ask nothing more than "credit where credit is due," which only applies if they explicitly say so (and many of them do).
Here are our options:
A) Get permission from a copyright holder to use their song, or
B) Use a copyrighted work without permission, put the vid up, pray it doesn't get popular enough to attract the copyright holder's attention, and take it down if they ask you to (and threaten legal action if you do not).
That having been said, anything that's owned by a major record label (and, by extension, just about everything that's ever been done by anyone who's had a hit song) is almost certainly off limits. Folks who release their works for free (such as the fine folks at Overclocked Remix) are far less likely to care if you use their music, although asking permission is always the nice thing to do.
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I hear real music in combo videos all the time. Check out some of stuff over at Cyberfanatics. I don't think it's a big deal to use a song in a little internet video clip. Frankly, if we really wanted to talk about copyrights, we'd all be busted for ROM possession.
Hello guys...
I never seen this thread and I rarely come to the forum but I got the same idea a few time ago...
Here is my job, feel free to tell me what you are thinking about it...
Godplaying
the file here is the Low Quality version, 35 Mo, but the quality is good enough to watch into good conditions... I made a high quality wich is 76 Mo, not hosted anywhere at the time but if necessary, I can host it...
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Only a minute into this but I'm liking it very much. Nice work. :)
edit: Oh man, loved the part five minutes in with the drums as well as the rest after. The credits are almost as long as the movie itself though!
Whoa. That's really good. I think Bisqwit should see that.
Yeah, I saw the previous version (before the author fixed the URL at the end of the movie), but I've still to watch it with sounds on.
With sounds off, I liked it, though I was chuckled a bit by the occassional DIVX advertisement in the corner...
I think it would be nice if you displayed some creidts as overlay during the actual game clip; just something in the corner like you might see on a music video or game review show. And yeah, I never did really understand the whole obsession with having credit sequences the same length as the main part of the video. It just seems to be an excuse to play another song in entirety.
the credits are a bit long, I'm aware of that, but I though it may be a good occasion to place the whole SMB1 run... the run is short and fit in well... I think...
For the divx advertisemnt, I simply have some vids with that I worked with, and I don't know how to put it of...
Finaly, if most people think the credits are too long and innapropriate, I think I can make an alternate version of it, probably without full-SMB1 run, with a different music and much shorter...
as you wish...
Very nice that you went ahead and did this. I like it.
Some corrections and suggestions:
- Perfectness: the use of default in this sense is archaic. Probably "flaw" or just "fault" would be better.
- Marble Madness was played by Inzult.
- For SMW, the video by Viper has a much better Bowser fight. There are a lot of better flying scenes in that one too (the one on the autoscrolling bridge comes to mind. and the rex dinosaur stomping scene). Actually everything is better in that video.
- The Metroid video bombjumping section has been done much faster by MF, see his thread in the Snes section. The other Metroid clips are still good. Not that important though.
The credits are long, yeah. I'd only include the videos that weren't credited before.
I might sound negative (I've been told I do that a lot) but actually I really liked it. The effects and mixing and clips were very well chosen.
yes it is, as say in the (very long) credits...
Truncated> I don't really want to modify anything in the movie itself... I like it as it is now, and I don't wanna change (anyway, I just download and watch Viper's SMW run, and yeah, there is many things better than what I put in my work but... no ;) )
Anyway, I can change default for flaw and add Inzult in the credits, but I think it will take me to much time for just few details... If I have more changes to do, I'll do anyway (and my apologizes goes to Inzult :D)
Hehe, I liked it a lot!
However, I feel your second version will become a lot better....
There are a few questions I want to ask you directly however, so if you could get to the IRC channel (at top of every board its listed), I'd like to talk about those things...
the file here is the Low Quality version, 35 Mo, but the quality is good enough to watch into good conditions... I made a high quality wich is 76 Mo, not hosted anywhere at the time but if necessary, I can host it...
Nice. ^^ Any chance for a torrent for the high-quality version?
For the divx advertisemnt, I simply have some vids with that I worked with, and I don't know how to put it of...
If you're on windows, select "Disable Logo" on the "Quality Settings" tab in the Decoder Configuration utility.
You can upload it at yousendit.com
but when you uploaded the file will available for 7 days or 25 downloads and that file will be deleted
(you must not use download accelator to download the file)
If someone use FlashGet with 5 jets
the server thinks the file has been download 5 times. (i think)
but u can use ysiGet to download files from youSendIt
or upload at my website here:
http://62sv2.hopto.org/fileup/
my website has 26.6GB left
my website is slow. the maximum download speed is 32kb/second
you can use accelator to resume download or when server down you download will be canceled
This is my Signature. = 4aa6a32c5eb83ac0ddcbc0039a26b240
I still don't understand why you can't just send the thing to Bisqwit and have him post a torrent (assuming he'd be willing to do that, that is, but I think he would... right? ^^)
That way, you wouldn't have to worry about things like a global maximum upload rate of 32 kb/s or the file being deleted after 25 downloads or other such nonsense.
well if Bisqwit agrees, I can upload it myself on the server I used for the low quality one, letting him download it and then making a torrent ...
so ?
