Music Licensing For Photographers

Here is an interesting article from PDN magazine about a wedding photographer who got into a lot of trouble for using copyrighted music in a wedding video he produced and published on Youtube.

Photographers using copyrighted music in slideshows and videos is becoming an all to common practice and one that can lead to being sued.  It is funny that photographers seem to get so up in arms about usage rights of their images but many of them turn around and use music they don't have rights to use.

A few years ago we stumbled upon a great site that we recommend to our students, it is a Canadian company (respect!) that licences music specifically for photographers called With Etiquette.    

The great thing about the site is that you are supporting up and coming artists and the pricing is very reasonable.  Creative people supporting creative people something we should all do more of.