Los Angeles, CA—Like most of
my blog visitors I love music. I have my
favorites from Gershwin to The Doors.
The artists that have entertained me deserve all of the reward for their
work. Every musical recording is a labor
involving numerous people that worked so hard to create.
The music industry exists
because of intellectual property rights.
Without these rights so many of the hits we enjoy everyday may never
have pleased our ears.
My video host YouTube has settled most copyright
issues with the use of music within the USA.
Advertising and iTunes links have solved many of the problems.
There was also a surprising
discovery made by the copyright holders in the form of increased sales when a
video featuring their products was popular legitimate sales of the music
increased too. Old forgotten hits
suddenly were reanimated into moneymaking popularity once again!
As many of my visitors know
I’m into the camera drone technology. My
drones shoot amazing video but the natural sound is the annoying sound of the
whirling rotors and motors. I must
replace the soundtrack with music or a voiceover. Music is the obvious choice.
There is lots of copyright
free music out there but most of it sucks in a big way. Of course I want to use my favorite material. The problem is that my videos are
blocked out in Europe because of unresolved copyright issues.
I want so much to share some
great music that matches the videos. I’d
be willing to pay a reasonable fee for the privilege to have these videos seen
worldwide.
I have many friends in
Germany, Switzerland and The Netherlands where I can’t share these videos.
I will give you two examples.
While I was in Carmel By The
Sea I sent my drone up over the beach for the soundtrack I used my favorite
actress on the planet. She is a multi-talented Dutch lady, Carice van
Houten. She sang this classic 1930’s
American song in her terrific film, Black Book called 100 Years From
Today.
Late this summer I was asked
to shot a scene in the Palmdale desert for a film for my film director friend,
Pablo Lewin. The film is in post
production right now and I’m not sure what Pablo has in mind for the soundtrack
covering my shot.
Pablo gave me permission to
show this scene on YouTube and I immediately knew the music I wanted to
use! It’s from the film Baghdad CafĂ© but
is sung by Patti LuPone and is called, Calling You. How perfect it was!
There has to be a way to
solve this problem.
Needless to say my European friends will not be able to see these.
The Palmdale Desert Scene:
1 comment:
Pay up like everyone else has to.
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