Applying for copyright

Applying for copyright

 

Copyright is a legal concept, which is used to give the created of original piece of work exclusive rights. This usually lasts for a limited amount of time and is enacted by most governments. This is used to stop people from copying or using that idea, it also gives the creator the right to be credited from the work, which they have created in order for them to be able to determine who may use their work and give them the permission to be able to use it. But it does mean that the person who wants to use it does have to ask for permission. The creator can also gain some financial benefit from this as this gives them the permission to charge people who want to use there creation, there are also other benefits which can be gained from copyright, although the creator has to say to have there creation or their idea copyrighted. Other similar forms are a patent, trademark, and the trade secret.  Where music is involved it automatically gets copyrighted when it gets created, and if someone wishes to use this then they have to get permission from the artist first.    

 

1.       Explain why I had to apply copyright

One of the reasons why I had to apply for copyright is because it is against the law to just use someone’s song as they can sue the person who had used the

The reason why I had to apply for copyright is because it is against the law to just use it. As if someone did just use it then the artist would then be able to take legal actions against that person, and as music automatically gets copy righted.

    Therefore I had to make sure that I applied for copyright to conform to legal legislation, so I emailed the artists, which we were interested in, to make them aware that I would be using one of their songs.

 

 

2.       Discuss in detail what you did. Identify the record label, email, phone, etc. (step by step account)

The first thing, which I did, was to go onto the Internet and look for the artists, which I was interested in. I then searched for their email addresses; again I found this by looking it up on the internet. Once I had found the page which would allow me to contact someone to ask for permission to use a song. I emailed them with this request, although when we contacted people it wasn’t always the artist themselves, as on many occasions it was the artist manager, or the marketing team amongst many other departments to get permission the email which I asked was along the lines of me asking if it would be okay to use the song, and make them aware that I would like to use the song for school purposes and nothing more than this, in order for me to be able to complete my course work I would also tell them that we are interested in therefore using one of their songs and therefore enquiring if that would be okay . I found that a lot of the departments then provided me with another email address asking me to contact another member of their department. Again this was also done through email. This was the last stage which I took about asking for copyright.      

 

3.       Response- did you get a response from the record label, how many times did you contact them, are you still waiting for a response?

I did get a response quite a few of the artists which I emailed. But for our chosen artist we decided to use the song of. They sent an email back saying that they understand what I was staying, but I would need to contact another woman, the email address was then provided in the email for me to therefore email. I chose not to email this women as this was a similar email which I had got from a quite a few other artist therefore I thought that I may of found myself just having to keep emailing different people and not really being able to find out if I would be allowed to use it. But for this reason I just kept it to the one email. So to answer the question I did receive a response from the artist of the song which we are thinking about doing.