Permission

Due to "Bird Song" being written by myself as well the other members in The Perceptionists, there is less of a need for permission to be asked as copywriting is in my name. However I have asked the other members of my band by email to check that they're fine for me to create a music video for our song. Here is the email copied and pasted onto my blog.


Hey

For my A level Media Project I need to create a music video for any song that doesn't already have one. So I was wondering if you all didn't mind me creating one for Bird Song as it was killing two birds with one stone considering its a good song to create a music video and will hopefully help me get a good grade in this project and will give us so much wanted advertisement and means to expand yourselves on such means as YouTube.

Cheers Nathan.


Copyright is important in the music industry as it can prevent music being copied without royalties having to be paid. For example before "Bird Song" was copyrighted it could have been easily stolen by another band and put forward as their own and there would have been nothing we could do about it. Copyrighting allows bands to recieve royalties for a song being covered or played on the radio. It also means a name of a song can be disputed if it has the same name although this is an uncommon occurance. Lyrics of a song also come under the copyright law as a recent example of this is an expected court battle between The Beach Boys and Katy Perry over a similar like in Katy Perry's song "California Gurls".