Author: Phil Harris

Making Money with Your Video Production Department

Making Money with Your Video Production Department

Posted by | Feb 19, 2020 | |

The equipment I had was barely consumer grade. I needed to replace it with higher grade equipment as well as massively increase the quantities of everything I had so more students would have access to gear at the same time. I could get everything I needed but for one thing – I needed funds. The following story has a happy ending and it is filled with ideas that you can adopt to create the same solution to the money problem while at the same time giving your students a real-world education.

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Can Our Play or Musical Be Recorded?

Can Our Play or Musical Be Recorded?

Posted by | Feb 16, 2020 | , |

There are play and musical production licensing companies which amateurs (schools) must deal with to get performance rights for all material not in public domain. Shakespeare is definitely in public domain. Five of the largest of those licensing companies are listed below with a copy of the actual contract clause which applies to video recording. Nearly every major play and musical you’ve ever heard of is handled by one of these five companies.

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How Does YouTube Get Away with Posting Copyrighted Material?

How Does YouTube Get Away with Posting Copyrighted Material?

Posted by | Feb 15, 2020 | , |

I hear that question from students and teachers quite often. It’s actually a pretty simple answer. They don’t – at least not really. Here’s the way it works, if Mike uploads something that contains copyrighted material, it is placed on YouTube’s site. It is entirely possible that the copyright holders may never know Mike posted anything. YouTube is a pretty big site. 

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