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41. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

I'm not sure what you mean about a backing track, but generally I think making an amateur music video to a popular song would be fair use as long as it's non-commercial and it adds your own creative content ...

42. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

hello, I am 16, and my brother is 14, we and 2 of out friends would like to create a music video of the song "otherside" by the red hot chili peppers, and we have a professional editing program, would ...

43. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... 4. Makes clear in the description, the composer and even the song name on amazon 5. Has quiet low hits < 1000 6. Alot of other videos on youtube, use the same music. 7. The video purpose is the result ...

44. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

So I video my kid performing in a school musical. They perform a copyrighted song. I post the song for non-commercial purpose (share with other parents in town) No attempt is being made to compete with ...

45. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Seth - That should probably be fine. It's only brief parts of songs, and aside from the fact that it's done mechanically, it's not much different than thousands of other violin covers on YouTube. ...

46. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

I have just made a machine which plays a violin. I want to make a You Tube video of it playing several songs that people would recognize(typically 30 to 45 seconds for each song). Would this be fair u ...

47. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... 4. Makes clear in the description, the composer and even the song name on amazon 5. Has quiet low hits < 1000 6. Alot of other videos on youtube, use the same music. 7. The video purpose is the result ...

48. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... 4. Makes clear in the description, the composer and even the song name on amazon 5. Has quiet low hits < 1000 6. Alot of other videos on youtube, use the same music. 7. The video purpose is the result ...

49. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

OK, how short must a clip be to be considered fair-use? I've included a 40 sec. clip of a song in the intro to one of the episodes of my video blog. This intro is build a bit as a movie clip, it shows ...

50. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... of different UMG songs and were part of a series). Perhaps that's what caused it to fail. This time I'm just going to fight them one at a time. Oh and just a heads-up -- YouTube only allows 200 characters ...

51. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

@Danny - Meme dances like Harlem Shake I believe area a classic example of fair use since they put an original spin on the song and would be considered transformative. For a compilation of Harlem Shake ...

52. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

@ Ryan - Videos like that are kind of iffy since if you're just using the music in the sound track to a video that is otherwise unrelated to the song, it's probably not transformative enough to be fair ...

53. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... Technically there's a legal process where you can get a compulsory "mechanical rights" license to make a cover recording of a song. That is easy to get, but does not include the rights to syncronize the ...

54. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Dear Patrick, We made compilation of the most funny harlem shake video's, it's the combination of the song en the people performing creative dances which I think makes it Fair use. I got a content ID claim ...

55. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

First and foremost thankyou for your website. My question is we make duck hunting videos with various popular songs in the background. The purpose of our videos are non-commercial and informative on duck ...

56. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

This has probably been answered already, but I don't feel like reading through 12 pages of comments to find the answer. Patrick, I recently posted a video of me playing the drums to a song (drum cover). ...

57. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Jessica, you are right that your use is borderline commercial. That doesn't necessarily mean it's not fair use, though your pictures may or may not add enough original meaning to the song to count as transformative ...

58. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Hi there I am an artist and I make videos using photos of my original work. They are only about a minute long and I like using my favorite songs in the background. I posted a video recently and got a notice ...

59. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... clips. @Steve - Even when use for educational purposes, I rather doubt lyric videos are transformative enough to count as fair use. All you're really doing is putting the song on YouTube verbatim with ...

60. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Dear Sir: Please take a look of my posting in YouTube under "stclee" to see if my uploads cover under "fair use" for copyright songs? What I do is putting "lyrics on Screen" for old songs. I do not own ...