Applying for music copyright
Copyright is one of the main types of intellectual property others include designs, patents and trademarks. Intellectual property allows a person to own things they create in the same way as something physical can be owned. It is the right to prevent others copying or reproducing someone's work. Copyright is used in the music industries to stop lyrics and songs from being copied without the artists permission. Also beats cannot be taken without artists permission, as over the years, artists such as Mac Miller and Pharrell Williams have been in legal battles over copyright issues, for example, Mac Miller was once sued for $10 million over a song "Kool aid and pizza" that supposedly sampled a beat from Lord Finesse without consent.
Seeing the troubles and consequences other artists have had of copyright infringement, our group had to apply for copyright as we are using a song by Jake Bugg signed to mercury record label that we did not create nor do we own, so we need permission to publish content that doesn't belong to us to avoid any legal trouble. We therefore have emailed mercury record label, detailing what we intended to do with the content and are requesting permission to go ahead with using their song for our project. After one direct email, we are still awaiting a response, a copy of the email can be seen below.
As of November 16th 2015, we are still awaiting a reply from mercury records.
This post demonstrates some understanding of what the music copyright law is. You have made a start in describing what the law is, but you need to ensure that you relate the law points to detailed examples from the industry, to demonstrate further understanding of the points.
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