Techy Facebook help please anyone?

[Si]

Help All,
My son Will, whom some of you may have met on a couple of outings, is doing TV, Radio and Film at Uni and has just finished year one. He has set up a Facebook page where he and few others review films old and new. They have a slot on Uni radio too and William writes the content of an interview style piece.

Anyway, he did a trailer over the summer for up and coming reviews which will be posted in Autumn with a music soundtrack and Facebook blocked him citing copyright. Now I know a tiny little bit about copyright and fair use policies but not enough and I know nothing about Facebook...!

So is it fair use if it is a cover track interspersed over movie trailers, which are already in the public domain, to tease his very few but growing number of readers/listeners. He isn't changing the music or selling It or the reviews, there is no financial gain. we had an option to ignore the warning and initially went passed it when they blocked him. Now worried if he tries again they may block for longer. Sent Facebook a message but had no reply his page is filmtalk on Facebook.

Any advice would be gratefully received. It will be a question for his lecturers when he get back but that's three more weeks....

Si

 

[Twin Turbo]

I am not any expert, however, I understand that there is music that has no copyright and freely available within the public domain.

Try https://freepd.com/ (only found after an quick google search, so you could use others)

And you can use freely

 

[hard top]

Tell him to upload to YouTube and then post on FB.

 

[t-tony]

Sometimes when I upload video on YouTube and you can hear the music in the background they mute the sound but others they do not.

Tony.

 

[GazHyde]

They generally use a large hammer on this one, if they hear music they will assume copyright and block - it's their ass they are covering not yours. YouTube will do the same for anything it can detect that is copyright. The process is an automatic software algorithm and likely not ever viewed by a human (unless someone has reported the content, in which case its likely - though not guaranteed - it will be viewed by a human).

This isn't so much an argument over what is legal or right, it's how they process what you've uploaded. If they want to dump your videos they will, and I'm sure their is something in their T&C's which covers just this. You will of course be able to argue what is legal and proper, but they will likely ignore you, after all what's the chance of you taking legal action against YT or FB? Should you convince them it's fine and they allow it, it's still subject to being reported by some random individual or even a record company looking for unlicensed use of their work.

It's just easier for them to deal with things this way. Sorry to be negative but people will realise at some stage how fudged up companies like FB and YT are at some stage. Facebook is corrosive in many ways, but has a wide reach which is why people use it.

As TT says above there is a lot of music you can access which will give you generally free usage rights - but will generally require some form of statement included to credit them.

 

[Si]

Thanks for your replies, I agree @GazHyde their stand point is clear, we will figure an alternative