Copyright

The music industry and many other industries will use copyright to protect their products, ideas, lyrics and technologies. By copyrighting their products they are protecting it from being copied by any competitors in that market. In the music industry the artists name, lyrics and music video will all be copyrighted. This is too ensure that any other artists wont copy their work and make it for their own. Copyright is too also provide a certain amount of security over the song as many people now tend to illegally download their music from youtube converters or lime-wire. Copyright is to ensure the creator of something gets all of the profits that may arise from it and to be known for being the owner/creator. Copyright is extremely important as it allows the law to individualize everybody's work so he/she will credit from the work.

We had to use copyright so that the record label would allow us to use their artists song for our project. By getting permission from the record label or the artists himself we will then be allowed full use of the song for our project.

When we found the artists that we wanted to do we had to  find some sort of details for that artist so we could request copyright permission. I used the internet to search about Jason Mraz to find some details. I couldn't find any personal details for jason Mraz although i found out the contact details to his record label. You usually wont be able to speak to the artist himself so you should go through his  record label to get permission. I then E-Mailed the record label requesting the use of jason Mraz's song 'I Wont Give Up'.

I didn't get a response from the record label. I believe this partly is as the record label is based in the USA and are not familiar with the U.K's school curriculum so didn't think that it was adequate for them to allow us copyright of the song.