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Your Online Video May Cost you Thousands
You’ve just gotten married, and are traveling the world with your new spouse on your honeymoon. A good friend who filmed the wedding and reception has just finished putting together the footage. He has posted it on YouTube so you both can relive your wedding day on your honeymoon.
The video is wonderful. It illuminates several moments you’d missed in the excitement of the day. Your friend has even included your song, Endless Love, as the background music for the video.
After the honeymoon, as you unpack the doorbell rings. Opening the door you find a man asking for your signature for a package. You think, "Which aunt or uncle must be sending money"? When the deliveryman smiles, hands you the package and says, "You’ve been served." you are surprise and horrified.
Confused, you tear the package open to find a lawsuit for $10,000 for copyright infringement. You wonder to yourself--could this be right? How did I infringe any copyrights? Out of curiosity you scan the pages of the lawsuit for a logical explanation. Then you find it: "the illegal use of Endless Love by Lionel Ritchie and Diana Ross in your wedding video posted on YouTube".
With all the attention YouTube has gotten from the Viacom lawsuit for $1 billion for unauthorized distribution and infringe of copyright laws, everyone has overlooked a possible next wave of lawsuits to come. Those are for the vast majority of online videos that are made by small home videographers who have included music in their videos that has not been licensed for use.
Typically music publishers and record labels have turned a blind eye to home and wedding videographers who produce their own work. Shared with an audience of usually less then 10 close personal friends and family, these home videographers have all but been ignored for years. This was before sites like You Tube, Google Video, ChickShack, AsSeenInVT and a handful of others began creating an outlet for anyone with a video camera. Now home videographers need to be warned. You may soon find yourself involved in lawsuits for illegal use of a copyrighted protected musical recording, the fines for which could be in excess of $15,000 per song.
Remember how fiercely the recording industry went after everyone from children to old ladies who downloaded songs from sites like Napster? It may be only a matter of time until they start going after videographers in the same manner.
Most home videographers are unaware of the limitations on using copyright protected music. The vast number of home Videographers wrongly assume that they can synchronize or place any music they want in their video production. In the past, a small home and wedding Videographer would usually get away with this. The problem is these wannabee Quentin Tarantino’s have now begun distributing their productions to more then just a few friends and family. A video loaded online has the potential market of hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of viewers, and if you’ve created something popular using YouTube, you may be the next victim.
Local TV stations in America can pay tens of thousands of dollars for licensing music for their stations. This price can go into the millions if they desire to use popular artists songs.
For Videographers who have uploaded productions onto sites like YouTube and are now nervous, let me educate you a bit on how licensing works.
Simply put, copyright laws state that any music under copyright protection may not be used for any kind of video production, media presentation, websites, etc--that is, without approval from the copyright owner. Several types of licenses are usually required. These may include some or all of the following: Synchronization, Performance and Master licenses.
Now before you stress over the fact that no one will see your masterpiece or that big the bad RIAA is coming to get you -- there is a solution. First, you must remove the copyrighted music you have in your videos. Then you have the option to either write your own music for your video (most of us are not musically creative enough to go this route); or license music from an Online Production Music Library.
Online Production Music Libraries typically lease music from their catalogs on either an individual per use basis, called a drop, or blanket licenses that will cover an entire project. The advantages of online production music libraries are the scope, depth and breadth of the catalogs. Pricing ranges greatly, depending on many variables.
Most production libraries do not create music specifically for amateur videographers, but Recently, an L.A. based production music library called TunEdge Music announced it would give special licensing for web distribution. TunEdge Music is providing access to their online catalog and for a reasonable fee their music can be licensed specifically for online creations.
About the Author
This article was coauthored by Mike Bradbury and Joel Thatcher. Joel is a senior employee of Tunedge Production Music. Tunedge provides production music solutions for professionals and amateurs alike through an online interface. Mike is an analyst for Objectware, Inc, an Atlanta web design company.
Lionel Catalog
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 1902 LIONEL TRAINS CATALOG VERY RARE MISSING COVER ORIGINAL NICE CONDITION  US $6,000.00
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 GREENBERGS LIONEL CATALOGUES VOLUME 1 2 3 4 5 6 US $1,199.99
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 COMPLETE set of LIONEL catalogs from 1947 1960 These are in very good shape US $560.00
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 HUGE LIONEL TRAINS CANVAS PRINT 1957 CATALOG COVER 50 INCHES x 32 INCHES US $500.00
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 Lionel Advance catalogs 1952 59 and 1961 63 Mint US $449.95
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 LIONEL 1922 CATALOG NOT A REPO MINOR ISSUES READ US $400.00
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 Lot 4 Lionel Catalogs 19411949 1950 and 1951 US $395.00
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 1945 1980 LIONEL TRAINS CONSUMER CATALOGS W BINDER US $349.50
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 1927 LIONEL CATALOG NOT A REPO VERY MINOR ISSUES US $300.00
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 Greenbergs LIONEL CATALOGS 1923 32 Prewar Vol 2 MINT NEW UNUSED Pre War Book US $249.99
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 COMPLETE SET OF 1961 1966 LIONEL train catalogs in very good condition US $240.00
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 Greenbergs LIONEL CATALOGS 1923 32 Prewar Vol 2 NEW UNUSED Pre War Train Book US $224.99
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 Greenbergs Lionel Catalogues Vol5 1955 1960 US $219.95
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 1931 Lionel Train Catalog 52 pages full color Chic2 US $185.00
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 1933 Lionel Train Catalog 52 pages full color Chic2 US $180.00
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 Outstanding Authentic 1926 Lionel Train Catalog 48 Vivid Color Pages with Prices US $175.00
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 GREENBERGS LIONEL CATALOGS VOLUME V 1955 1960 US $175.00
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 1934 Lionel Full Color Train Catalog 36 pages Chic2 US $155.00
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 Greenbergs LIONEL CATALOGS 1955 60 Vol 5 UNUSED MINT O Gauge Postwar Train Book US $149.99
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 VINTAGE 1934 TOY CATALOG LIONEL TRAINS PEDAL CARS MICKEY MOUSE ERECTOR SETS US $149.99
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 Greenbergs Lionel Catalogues Vol 6 1961 1969 US $149.95
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 1940 Lionel Train Catalog 64 pages full color Chic2 US $145.00
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LIONEL - SANTA FE GOLDEN STATE ARROW TRAIN SET # 6-1388?
Does anyone know what year Lionel released this set? I recently purchased this train from my youth for my son and would like to find the right year catalog to go with it. A little help please!
sorry samurai, real life doesn't reflect to often in toys. Lionel called it that, and so.... If anyone needs a look:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310185931482&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
and before I get grief about how much I paid, I was forced to buy this from my ex-friken' wife. Yeah....real fun
Ben>> Great. Yeah, it's early 70's my guess is around 74, but I can't find the right year, and the vintage catalogs are too PRICEY to just hit and miss. Thanks for the research, because I have been able to find squat!
I don't have my reference material handy, but I would guess mid-70s based on the box design. 1970 would be the absolute earliest date, and probably 1980 would be the latest.
If you'll keep the question open for another day, I'll dig out my modern era guidebook and then can tell you the exact year(or year range) in which it was made.
EDIT:
My TM pocket price guide gives a production date of 1973-75.
I also dug my '75 catalog, which is the only catalog I have in that time range. The set is NOT listed in the '75 catalog.