Making a 50th wedding anniv. slide show

[displaced texan]

My parents are having their 50th wedding anniversary later this month. My sis and I have compiled a number of photos to include. My problem is this. I know using copywritten music is taboo if Im selling the slide show to others, but if I gift this to my parents using their favorite songs from the 50's is this wrong?

[superstes]

As I understand it, music copyright only lasts 50 years, theres a big movement to raise it 99 years so I think you will be safe as long as it's for personal use.

Besides, If you never told us, we would never have known, or anybody else for that matter ;)



Steve

[Stocky]

If there is a copyright on the music then yes its illegal to copy it and use it that way although I agree with superstes that you are not likely to be caught. Use like that is pretty common practice.

It is bad form to talk about this kind of theft in a form where half of the members are artists trying to fight off theft of their own work though.

[superstes]

If it's music from the fifty's, the copyright would have run out.

What you could do is give them the photo CD and let them play the music CD at the same time, just to be safe from doing what you want in your home, Voila.

Steve

[displaced texan]

Never mind

[displaced texan]

Thanks for the replies. That's pretty much what I thought.

[superstes]

It is bad form to talk about this kind of theft in a form where half of the members are artists trying to fight off theft of their own work though.

Unbelievable. What are you talking about.

What has been stolen, nicked or thieved here, the music has already bought and paid for, the camera equipment and pictures have all been paid for, all the computer equipment has been paid for, the electricity to run all this has been paid for.

The stars from the fifty's won't loose too much sleep over this personal, home CD i think.

displaced texan, nice idea, I can see them getting a lot of pleasure out of this.

Steve

[displaced texan]

Unbelievable. What are you talking about.

What has been stolen, nicked or thieved here, the music has already bought and paid for, the camera equipment and pictures have all been paid for, all the computer equipment has been paid for, the electricity to run all this has been paid for.

The stars from the fifty's won't loose too much sleep over this personal, home CD i think.

displaced texan, nice idea, I can see them getting a lot of pleasure out of this.

Steve
THanks for the vote of confidence. For the record tho, Im only using snippets of certain songs to intro each section of their lives over 50 years of change. To cover the rest of the photos will be from MY stock music bought and paid for.

Ive read where I would have to get permission to use a photog's work if they sat for portraits. What Ive accumulated are from friends and family of pics taken over 70 years of living. So no worries there.