What is copyright clearance? Before anyone can sell, publish or distribute work that does not belong to them, they must obtain the permission/consent of the copyright owner. This rule applies even if you are only using extracts or samples from the work. To avoid copyright infringement laws, I must obtain copyright clearance for a song that I wanted to use for my coursework. This meant that I had to send a letter or an email to the record company who owns the song.
Transcript
What is copyright clearance?
Before anyone can sell, publish or distribute work that does not belong to them, they must obtain the permission/consent of the copyright
owner. This rule applies even if you are only using extracts or samples from the work.
To avoid copyright infringement laws, I must obtain copyright clearance for a song that I wanted to use for my coursework. This meant that I had to send a letter or an email to the record company who owns the song.
Choosing a song• The song I chose was “Let her go” by Passenger. I believe this was an appropriate
song to choose as hardly anyone knows the song (non-mainstream) and folk/rock is my favorite genre therefore I would enjoy creating a music video for one.
• Below you can see I contacted the record company through email.
Success?• It was a surprise that they have replied! So they asked where I was
located..
Luck ran out• Unfortunately, I guess I was unsuccessful in gaining copyright clearance as
they stopped replying. However, this isn’t the end of the world as I will still keep emailing companies for other alternatives!
