FYI The forwarded snippet at the end of this message is a reply from APRA, the Australasian Performing Rights Association, who are one of the organisations responsible for music licensing in Australia (others being ARIA, AMCOS and PPCA).
The documents referred to on the Australian Copyright Council's web site are pretty clear on "sampling" being a no-no unless previously authorised. In light of reading those, I would consider a 30 second snippet of a song to be "substantial" enough to constitute a violation of copyright. Our overseas gliding pals seem to disregard copyright on almost all the videos I've seen. Often times they use one or more entire tracks by mainstream artists as backing music. Just look at the videos referred to on Usenet group rec.aviation.soaring, e.g the (VERY large) ones from Aero Club of Portugal (http://www.aecp.pt/index.asp?id=149). I remain unconvinced that any of these uses licensed music. The Domestic Use license referred to is not really what we could use for a gliding promotional video that was distributed far and wide on CD/DVD or streamed on the Internet. Cheers Jason Armistead ------- Start of forwarded reply ------- Hi Jason Thankyou for your enquiry. You are quite in your interpretation of the Copyright Act; any synchronisation (reproduction into video) of music, no matter what length, needs to be cleared with the appropriate Copyright owner (music publisher and record company). For further and more detailed information regarding Copyright and music please refer to the Australian Copyright Council's website - http://www.copyright.org.au/PDF/InfoSheets/G012.pdf http://www.copyright.org.au/PDF/InfoSheets/G047.pdf In some instances we may be able to licence on their behalf under an AMCOS/ARIA Domestic Use Video Licence, which is a blanket licence to cover purely 'domestic' video productions. The most common example being wedding videos and similar videos. I have attached application forms below, which explain in better detail costs and terms/conditions associated with these licences. For further general information re. this licence please also refer to our website - http://www.apra.com.au/Licence/RecDomestic.htm I hope this answers your questions; if you do have any further questions please let me know. Kind Regards, Mostyn Rischmueller AMCOS Mech. Licensing Assistant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph. (61) 2 9935 7701 ------- End of forwarded reply ------- _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
