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if using a slideshow to present your work to prospects (W&P photogs)?

I have none yet, but I am considering adding a soundtrack to my slideshow.

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I respect the copyrights of musicans as I'd like them to respect mine. I use royalty-free music from http://www.musicbakery.com

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RDKirk
'TANSTAAFL: The only unbreakable rule in photography.'
 
Great site- will be using them for sure.

Having had my images copied on a regular basis, it is important that as professional photographers we don't infringe others copyright.
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Roger
 
The software is free and extremely easy to learn and use.

Turn on your speakers. Read the directions first. Then play it. As it is a 15 meg file (3.4 minutes) it takes a while to download. 30 seconds with my internet connection. Yours will most likely be longer. I could have made the file MUCH smaller (its the mp3 size) by re-ripping the file to 16 bps rather than 198 (CD quality) but I wanted to see what the program would do! I love it.

http://dustylens.com/test_video.htm
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Steve Bingham
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One time use of music for a single client probably wouldn't be worth anybody's time. BMI, SESAC, and ASCAP can help you but everybody will lose on such small use. A lot of music is public domain, but the performance isn't. Music Bakery and others can sell you music at a reasonable price for your use. Also, their are some software programs out there that can generate sound beds and even original compositions - or even use public domain tunes and build on these. However, this presents another learning curve for a busy photographer!

Easiest. Buy the music from someone like Music Bakery (their are a half dozen companies that do this).
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Music in the Public Domain covers most anything that the copyright owner has been dead for 75 years or more. That means all the classical music is in public domain. The actual recording is not, but you are treading on much less dangerous ground with classical music. Canon in D is a very popular classical piece for wedding music.

Most photographers own the copyright to their images. Most musicians who have been signed by a record label do not. The musicians who are not signed, and there are MANY who are very talented, are eager to have their music heard. Find someone locally or nationally but unsigned, and ask them if you can use their music as background for your slide show in exchange for a link and music credit. Anything you've heard on commercial radio stations has been signed by a label and the label owns the copyrights. Labels are next to impossible to deal with unless you are Pepsi. The musicians have no say once they sell their rights.
 
mean this message for the original poster.... My suggestion was to purchase the royalty free music I linked to which is all original music owned by a world famous artist who is in the business of making music for royalty free distribution.

Best regards,

Lin
DesertSage said:
Music in the Public Domain covers most anything that the copyright
owner has been dead for 75 years or more. That means all the
classical music is in public domain. The actual recording is not,
but you are treading on much less dangerous ground with classical
music. Canon in D is a very popular classical piece for wedding
music.

Most photographers own the copyright to their images. Most
musicians who have been signed by a record label do not. The
musicians who are not signed, and there are MANY who are very
talented, are eager to have their music heard. Find someone locally
or nationally but unsigned, and ask them if you can use their music
as background for your slide show in exchange for a link and music
credit. Anything you've heard on commercial radio stations has been
signed by a label and the label owns the copyrights. Labels are
next to impossible to deal with unless you are Pepsi. The musicians
have no say once they sell their rights.
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Yes, I was replying to the original poster. The music Barry has on his site that you linked to is nice instrumental music. I was only offering another option that many people overlook - the struggling artist.
 
As has been mentioned, music written over 75 years ago will have fallen into public domain (particularly classical music--popular music may have had its copyright extended in some way by a record company), so a local orchestral group or instrumentalist may well be willing to record a public domain piece for a very small fee.

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RDKirk
'TANSTAAFL: The only unbreakable rule in photography.'
 
You can buy a liscence to use recorded music, the price depends on the usage. For an add it is obviously the most expensive and is negotiated, for playing to your customers for entertainmentis the cheapest. I would not do it without the liscence, I value my own copyright too.

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I have not come across royalty free that I like yet, I will have to check the background music clause in the apra lisence, I think because it is background music in the studio it may be within its scope but the promotional aspect may preclude it, defineatly if it were use on promotional dvds.

So does anyone use modern popular music? We will assume you have the right lisence to use it.
 
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