MemberHi all!
I was wondering if someone may be able to help me with my wedding video music. We need to choose a song that’s licensable (ie on songfreedom or musicbed) but most popular music can’t be licensed so I’m not sure where to even begin. What licensed music have any of you chosen to have as a background for your wedding video?
Thanks!
MemberMemberJessica Harrell : it seems strange to me that you need a licensable song…your videographer (presumably) isn’t selling this video to anyone else. Mine allowed me to pick anything on iTunes/Apple Music. And all the wedding video I’ve seen didn’t use licensed songs…
we chose Lord jurons “she lit a fire” fwiw
MemberDecide on what vibe you want for your video. You can always pick more than one song and have them change it when you atmosphere of the video changes.
catskillsinjune : He’s technically “selling” his clients the video. But it’s not even about selling. It’s about rights to share on the internet and other mediums. The music wasn’t produced by the videographer so he can’t just reproduce it without crediting it or getting the approporaite right to use it. Any video on the internet using popular songs could be taken down by companies who own the rights. It actually happens a lot which is why so many people have captions saying they don’t own the rights etc.
Memberemmagreen482017 : a lot of the cases where that happens are for ads or videos that go viral (and then presumably could try to make money off of it). The videographer adding a song to the video for the client should fall under “fair use”
ETA: I never said the videographer shouldn’t credit the musician/artist when posting to social media.
MemberYeah I have seen videos with popular music on them too but apparently the artists can go after the videographers for copyright infringement so many buy licenses to use the song.
We need to use 2 songs. I want to use A Thousand Years for the first one then something more upbeat for the second. There aren’t too many choices though!
MemberJessica Harrell : So are you saying a thousand years isn’t livensable? Because that was the first song I thought of that is used like all. The. Time. In wedding videos
MemberA Thousand Yearss is licensable! I just can’t figure out a second song and it’s hard to find a good one.