The Legal

 Why No Health?

So now get onto the big and the juicy bit again the Legal problems faced with making a video like this but first lets address something.

There's a limit to the amount of health concerns in this type of production. This is down to two primary reasons the first of which being restrictions, due to the COVID restrictions that have been presented and passed I'm not able to utilize as many resources as I would do normally which brings down the health and safety risks a bit. The second thing is limiting the use of original footage which come with it and doing that means that I limit the amount of people involved in this project which helps in terms of keeping things narrow.

I have spoken about legal and health in a previous post (See Promotional Video Tag) however this is an entirely different circumstance with new rules and methods of achieving the end goal for the entire project as a whole.

Now the big and the bad, the legal that hangs over every project and with something like this there's a few big doozies that need to be covered. In a video project like this there's an obvious thing to cover and that's the legality and licensing behind the music/audio used in this video. Since any and all music is licensed and protected in its own way is fully protected by copyright it means that how I proceed will need to be careful as there is no protections that I have which will make this claimable for profit.

Two stages would need to be completed before I could do this the first giving a portion to the official owners of the song and its rights in this case would be the band 'Tenacious D' and the production company there of as they own all the rights to anything made off of it as royalties.

A Royalty is a small portion of profit to be paid out to any owning company for the song or material used when in being used for monetized purposes, it works in a similar way to when you buy a song off of a platform like Spotify. You can pay a predetermined amount of cash for the track, some of that will end up with the platform company while some will go to whoever gets paid the royalty amount which is ordinarily the band or the record company depending on the owner for the rights.

The second is actually talking about the rights themselves, see when you hear in a private establishment a piece of established music like say 'OOPS! I DID IT AGAIN' by Britney Spears there's a license that the company or organization has submitted in order to be able to play and use that set of music within a commercial setting as its copyrighted and protected against usage through an unlawful or 'unlicensed' manner. This helps to protect the owner of the rights and ensures that they get a return and that their intellectual property is protected proceeding but it also helps to protect the companies using it from any unnecessary legal preceding's.

Obviously there's a work around from this and that's use royalty free music. This is free to use and doesn't require all of this technical jargon, but for argument sake its necessary to mention and learn as it's important especially to this project.

Now as I do not have any of this in anyway as the standard cost for a license like this can be anywhere between £300-£400 and this wouldn't help with a second condition of this project and that's the fact that I plan to post this on big social platform so unless I indicate in someway that I am legally covered I do not get the chance to use this in a financial way and posting it onto sites like YouTube mean that the end product will be placed on an unlisted method until this is sorted and it will also block me from being able to possibly monetize it.

Neither of this is a problem as I have no intention of gaining profit and I will share the link elsewhere meaning that the final product will still have reach and impact it will just be in a more indirect manner than before.