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Music Licensing Firm Offers Cheap Licenses For YouTube Videos
from the but,-um,-what-about-free? dept
The New York Times is reporting that music licensing firm Rumblefish is trying to help people making YouTube videos avoid takedowns or the dreaded YouTube ContentID "silencing" by offering music that can be licensed for YouTube videos at $1.99 per song (for non-commercial purposes only). While it's at least somewhat good to see music licensing firms recognizing that this market isn't going to buy hugely expensive licenses, and trying to adjust to handle this new market, it sort of ignores the fact that there are still a ton of Creative Commons and similarly licensed (or public domain) music out there that they can use. Since the Rumblefish catalog in this offer doesn't include any major label music or "big name" artists, it seems like those who might be interested in such a thing could probably find just as good, if not better, Creative Commons-licensed music. On top of that, this is the same Rumblefish who caused some problems last year when it claimed licensing rights over some public domain music, pissing off a bunch of YouTube users.
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Magnatune
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Re: Magnatune
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ok explain time
if its what i have to pay then its $1.89 too much
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Re: ok explain time
This one.
I, too, agree the amount of money is too much. Any amount is too much.
What should be done, instead, is those using music in their videos be required to acknowledge the performer, song writer, and the song title.
Content is the ad for the product. If people like the song, then the required acknowledgment has potential to increase sales in other venues if people put the value in the song to want to own a copy of it.
This "license" is nothing more than another attempt at paying far too many people who didn't write or perform the song to begin with. Insulting, to say the least.
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Which is exactly the conditions that Magnatune ask for.
http://magnatune.com/
License info here
http://magnatune.com/info/cc_licensed
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I don't think so.
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What differentiates two videos using the same copyrighted song (which you've already bought mind you), where one has obtained this (ridiculously expensive) license from Rumblefish and the other hasn't?
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Hasn't Youtube already made deals with some Record Lables
http://goo.gl/sl35
and with YouTube editor you can add songs for free
http://www.youtube.com/editor
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Re: Hasn't Youtube already made deals with some Record Lables
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Plus you can officially share any purchased album with 3 friends.
Plus they have a "No DRM ever" pledge
Plus - they won't pursue you even if you share more than the official 3x - they say " we just hope you will feel bad about it".
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Magnatune Site
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RIPOFF
Don't use other peoples music. You can find hundreds of indie bands that don't believe in this bullshit, use their music. Don't pay the thieves.
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The potential scam
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Take so time
Take action to put these asshats out of work.
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Yes, you do. Just checked out the site. The second I tried accessing a download, it asks me to be a member.
For $180/year, I'll pass.
In addition, my opinion doesn't give a damn about copyright or CC restrictions.
One of these days, artists will realize the only control they have is how to make money. Once in the public domain, they have no control no matter what the hell they think.
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However if you look further down the page for the place where it says:
"Play all tracks as an m3u audio stream (or xspf, ogg, mp3 file" Right click on "mp3" and then "save link" and it will let you download the (lower quality) file for free.
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wow
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what's next?
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licensing
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