Applying for music copyright - Miss Georgiou

Copyright is the right to prevent the copying of property; in the music industry this means music, lyrics and sound recordings. It means that the copyright owner can protect their own work and control how it is used. Copyright doesn't actually exist until and idea is written down and recorded onto a tape, a disk or a computer. The owner of the copyright could be the creator of the work or the recordings owner (usually the record company). The law prevents the recording being used for things that the artist or label doesn't agree with which is why we had to apply for copyright for Paloma Faith's song 'Only love can hurt like this'.

We had to apply for copyright to use the song we wanted to include, for this we had to email the record label so we could get their permission to use their work. If we didn't do this we couldn't make any of our work public as we could risk 'infringement' which we are trying to avoid if we want to publish our work with the Paloma Faith's song included. If we did not ask for permission we could risk our work being taken down from YouTube and legal action taken against us. This is why we emailed the record label that Paloma Faith belongs to so that if they say yes, we could use the song in our work and music video.

Still we do not have a response from the Paloma Faith record company (18th December) but we have continued to plan and film our music video as we understand that epic records is a big company and may be busy.