Is most of trance in the public domain?

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Posted by sea bass on Jun-03-2010 06:23:

Is most of trance in the public domain?

I want to post a video with some trance in the background on facebook, but facebook is notorious for removing videos with background music due to copyright infringements.

Is there a good way to check which trance songs are copyrighted or not? I don't want to put it on youtube because I can't tag my friends

Posted by Lews on Jun-03-2010 06:30:

Is most?

Shit... I don't think any trance is in the public domain.

Posted by Redd on Jun-03-2010 06:34:

What? I've been posting youtubelinks of all kinds of tracks (many in HD) and none have been removed?

Posted by sea bass on Jun-03-2010 06:34:

ah.. bummer.

For some reason I thought most of it was in public domain. or maybe somehow I got the impression the artists didn't care much

Posted by sea bass on Jun-03-2010 06:36:

quote:
Originally posted by Redd
What? I've been posting youtubelinks of all kinds of tracks (many in HD) and none have been removed?

youtube is ok

facebook is very strict. they removed one of my videos a while back that had some alternative music

Posted by Lews on Jun-03-2010 06:37:

I'm not sure why you would think it would be in the public domain o.o

For the most part youtube won't take down videos, unless it's a song from Armada or someone who likes to flex their legal muscles. Most other labels and artists don't mind.

I don't know about facebook.

Posted by Redd on Jun-03-2010 06:38:

just up it to youtube first then link it from there

Posted by montana on Jun-03-2010 06:44:

unless it's out of copyright, it's not in the public domain.

Posted by basilisk on Jun-03-2010 18:46:

Look into the Creative Commons:
http://www.creativecommons.org

This is an attempt to find some middle ground between copyright ("all rights reserved") and public domain (anything goes). Here's a typical license:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/

If you are making a homemade video for noncommercial purposes you are welcome to use music released under such a licence as long as you provide credit and a link back to the original work.

Visit my web site for a ton of Creative Commons licensed music:
http://www.ektoplazm.com

There are hundreds of other resources around as well... go digging and you will find plenty