Friday, September 25, 2015
Fair Use and Copyright
This week we have been discussing Fair use and Copyright. This is a really interesting subject that I really did not know to much about. I think this applies the most to my life with work currently. When selling wine you have to do tastings and make up tech sheets and shelf talkers and such. There are usually trade specific pages that wineries will allow you to use, but they are typically not available to be used by the public. Otherwise anyone could just use the images I suppose. I have also had an interesting situation happen to me when I was managing a restaurant that sometimes had live music. There is an organization called ASCAP that deals with music rights. I did not know that was a thing, until I started getting phone calls. People would come and play at our restaurant on Thursday night, and sometimes these people would be recorded and posted up on YouTube. The people at ASCAP have a fleet of humans that spend their days searching YouTube for songs of Musicians they are representing. Now if that song was played at your bar you may have to give them some money. I ended up not having to deal with them, but it seemed really interesting that this was something that was being enforced by an organization.
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