SwimmingRiddles
05-10-2000, 08:18 AM
Alright, I'd like to preface this by saying that I am not soliciting legal advice. That would not be nice of me. I am merely inquiring as to whether people have any prior experiance or knowledge with the following:
SisterRiddles is directing a theater group that I am in. It is to be an impov comedy soap opera. We want to play with the concept of TV as Theater as much as possible. Because of this, we want to have a Drew Carrey style dance sequence. However, one of the actors, a dancer, is very uncomfortable with using pre-recorded music for copywrite reasons. I say that A.) no record company is going to care that a theater group in Burlington, VT is using 30 seconds of a song, B.) If they DO care, we cease playing the music. Is this immoral of me? Perhaps. But we're not attempting to pass it off as our own, we just want to do a goofy dance sequence. And, God willing, if the thing is a sucess, we are going to post a contest on our web site: "Write our Theme Song before we get arrested!" or some such.
Before I slog through intellectual property law, anyone have any experiance in this? Am I a bad person for saying "Let's not spend our precious rehersal time squabbling over the morality of using 30 seconds of a song." Once again, not soliciting legal advice, just inquiring as to other people's experiances.
SisterRiddles is directing a theater group that I am in. It is to be an impov comedy soap opera. We want to play with the concept of TV as Theater as much as possible. Because of this, we want to have a Drew Carrey style dance sequence. However, one of the actors, a dancer, is very uncomfortable with using pre-recorded music for copywrite reasons. I say that A.) no record company is going to care that a theater group in Burlington, VT is using 30 seconds of a song, B.) If they DO care, we cease playing the music. Is this immoral of me? Perhaps. But we're not attempting to pass it off as our own, we just want to do a goofy dance sequence. And, God willing, if the thing is a sucess, we are going to post a contest on our web site: "Write our Theme Song before we get arrested!" or some such.
Before I slog through intellectual property law, anyone have any experiance in this? Am I a bad person for saying "Let's not spend our precious rehersal time squabbling over the morality of using 30 seconds of a song." Once again, not soliciting legal advice, just inquiring as to other people's experiances.