Re: BiM 2009: STAR [CLOSED]
Yes. However, you must have permission or copyright ownership to use the music.
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Yes. However, you must have permission or copyright ownership to use the music.
Thank you, Smeagol - that was very helpful. 
I personally am not a fan of completely CG brickfilms, to me it defeats the purpose of using LEGO (infinite customization, simple pre-built armatures) because you might as well use characters of your own design unless the story is hinged on the characters being minifigures
I have two all-CG brickfilm scene outlines lying on my desk right now, one of which is 100% on the road to production. For me that appeal of an all-CG brickfilm is that it is many times easier to use LEGO bricks than to model everything in 3d, create every set by hand. CG brickfilms are more appealing than other CG in the same way that stop-mo brickfilms are more appealing than claymation. It's fast. The medium is well-known because everyone loves LEGO.
Who knows, maybe I'll manage to break your dislike of all-CG brickfilms.
- Leo
I like all CGI films, if they're done right, otherwise it looks horrible.
Yes. However, you must have permission or copyright ownership to use the music.
okay, thanks
What about fair use? Of course the laws on this vary from country to country and they're a little vague, but I'm sure that if you use 10 seconds of a song (depending on the length of the song), it would fall under fair use.
I'm not planning to use small parts of copyrighted music (yet), heck, I'm not even done with my script yet, but I thought this would be interesting to know for everybody.
DOH! My animation program CRASHED! I lost many seconds of footage
Man, you can already animate!
I have to wait till June, cause I have exams and I have to perform in a play!
I'm so excited for this! Bring it on everyone, and good luck (you're all gonna need it:lol:)
What about fair use? Of course the laws on this vary from country to country and they're a little vague, but I'm sure that if you use 10 seconds of a song (depending on the length of the song), it would fall under fair use.
I'm not planning to use small parts of copyrighted music (yet), heck, I'm not even done with my script yet, but I thought this would be interesting to know for everybody.
I've looked this up a long time ago and as far as I can tell 'fair use' is an urban legend, there is basically no such things and the laws are so murky that I would not use any part of a sound that you do not have rights to.
^ What he said, especially considering that we are likely to consider making a DVD of the STAR entries eventually. (With the permission of the directors participating, of course.)
i have now edited about a minute of the film(where 23 seconds were animation). 
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Not to begin picking now, but that was a bit off-topic. Say that in the coffy shop forum.
BTW: Welcome to BiM 
It appears there is some confusion over the time limit restriction. The time limit restriction has been removed, as mentioned in the first post of this thread. Some people are still seeing the 2-3 minute limit on the events page because they have an older version cached. Films only need to be longer than 2 minutes.
Oh, thats great! I've been thinking up ways to get my film to reach the time restriction, but now I don't have too!
What about using music from jamendo.com? That site has legal free downloadable music, including soundtracks. Most of the music has a creative commons license which lets you use the music if your film is not aimed for commercial purposes, in most cases you just have to credit the artist. Do we still have to ask permission from the artists?
Yes, you need explicit permission, and whether or not these are for 'commercial purposes' when we plan on creating a STAR DVD is debatable, so chances are that a creative commons license will not be good enough.
Man i need to start making this thing because I am so ready.
now. now. remember your grammar.
^ I'm sorry but, WHAT?
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