Copyright Request

Every member of our group was required to send an email to the email address of the artist of the song we chose to make a music video for.

The email that was sent read as follows:

'Dear Sir/Madam,

                             I am writing to you to request the use of the music track ‘Sign On’ by the artist Rat Boy (yourselves) for my A2 Media Studies music video production.

Our task for this year is to make a music video to an existing song. We found that this song suited our style and needs perfectly and we do not wish to infringe on any copyright issues nor continue the project without consent from the original artist(s) or their manager/company. The song will be used for non-profit educational purposes and only used for the sole purpose of educational assessment and will be transformative in that no copyrighted material (other than the song) will feature in the final music video. Furthermore, it will be clearly labelled as a production for this purpose and we will not pose ownership of the material. We will place a link to the original song by the artist in the description below once uploaded to YouTube.

I hope that this request will be viewed by yourselves as fair and proper use under existing copyright guidelines. If you have any further questions regarding this matter, please contact my teach at welchch@tuptonhall.derbyshire.sch.uk

Thank you for your time,

yours faithfully, Brantley Steer'