A Word About Music
Great music is inspirational. Lots of cliches coming to mind for me: the soundtrack of your life, etc. Cliches for a reason, I think, which is that music adds that special sauce to whatever it is you’re doing or watching at the moment.
For your Flicks ad project, please make sure that if you use copyrighted music that you have written permission from the owner. If you don’t, we can’t select your submission as a winner or even show it here.
There’s a whole slew of public domain music, artwork and other content that you can tap into for your project. Check out Creative Commons search for some options. You can also search Creative Commons through the search bar in Firefox: in the upper right corner of your browser, click on the triangle on the left of the search bar, then pick Creative Commons from the search engine choices listed.
Our FAQ has some more leads for source material (look for question #17) - feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments.
-Paul
February 6th, 2006 at 1:29 am
I don’t know what the situation is in other countries, but certainly copyright laws in the UK allow the use of up to 30 seconds of music and soundbites without permission from the author. Any more than this, and royalties are mandatory.