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I recorded a video once and added ocean wave sounds to it. I googled "ocean wave sounds" and used part of someone's recording of the ocean. When I posted it to
by excitom 9y ago
I recorded a video once and added ocean wave sounds to it. I googled "ocean wave sounds" and used part of someone's recording of the ocean. When I posted it to Facebook it got taken down for copyright infringement.
I appealed and they put it back, so there's that.
- newman8r 9y agoIMO that actually would be a legitimate case of copyright infringement (not that I'm a proponent of it) - I'm surprised you were able to get it put back.
- poizan42 9y agoThere needs to be an element of creativity for a work to be copyrightable in the US. If it's just the same sound as you would hear from going to a beach on any windy day then it may be hard to argue that there is any creativity to it.
- newman8r 9y agoAn audio professional would probably argue that there's a level of creativity required to create and edit such a recording for commercial use, but I'm no expert on the subject so you may be right.
- saint_fiasco 9y agoDue to a combination of technical limitations and the coconut effect, many natural sounds don't sound very natural if you just naively record them. Often the artist has to edit it at least a little to make it sound good.