Sunday, April 4, 2021

(26) Updates on Permissions

Hello everyone :) 

In blogpost 22 I mentioned that my therapist offered to help me to distribute my film to a grief counseling program for teens in Miami Dade. I agreed because I thought it could be an amazing way for me to get my project out there in the real world. Talking about this project in the educational sphere is one thing, but seeing it actually out there and seeing how people react to it would be an incredible opportunity. Since I am using copyrighted music, I wanted to get permission from the artists or labels to use their copyrighted music so I run into no issues about it if I continue to take my project out there. 

Unfortunately, It's been almost a full month and I have received no response from any emails I sent out or calls I made. This hiccup is making me wonder if I should reconsider using the music I have for copyright-free music. I'm not selling this project to anyone so maybe if I just credit the artists it should be fine? I'm not really sure how it all works and from my searches on Google it really seems like a case by case basis...

Also I'm planning to edit multiple songs that I have in one track, so by altering the music I might run into some problems there. I can't imagine that I would be hunted down for using copyrighted music for a project but I don't want to take my chances if the owners of the songs do take offense to what I'm doing. In any case this means that I might have to go back to the drawing board and find some time to find new music. This shouldn't be hard to do, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to find the tone of music I'm looking for. 

Since I'm working on the production now I'll sleep on this issue for tonight. I'll keep you guys posted!

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