Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Music for trailer - the rights

We sourced the main background music from a site called incompetech which gives royalty free music. I knew that we were not allowed to use copy right music but it came to my attention that 'royalty free' music is copyrighted music and we were unable to use it. However, after reading the small print for the site, i realised that the person that owns the site and made the music has put the music under Creative Commons: By Attribution license. This now means that we can use the music but we have to credit the maker so not only will i make a credit block which credits his work for the music but we also have to mention him when we upload to sites such as YouTube. 

The link shown below is the link to show where he mention the rights of his site:
http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/about_copyright.html

The next link is the full license agreement of the music:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/legalcode

by Charlotte Alderson

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