Applying for music copyright-Miss Georgiou

Copyright is a law, which allows artists to have full rights of their own work and allows only the artist to have rights of how their work is used and distributed, also the artist has the right to be identified as the creator of the piece of work at all times, which stops other people taking credit for the artists work as their own piece of work which is illegal. It is illegal without the consent of the artist to copy the work, perform or broadcast the work to the public and adapt the artist work. 

As part of our media coursework we had to choose a song to go with our music video. My group chose 'Blame' by Calvin Harris Feat John Newman, however to use this song we had to email the record label to see if we could use it otherwise it would be a breach of the artists copyright. To use the song we need the record labels permission so we can then put the song on YouTube with our music video. If we did not get in contact with the record label we would have been breaking laws by breaching the copyright. To apply for the music copyright I searched Calvin Harris' record label on Google, which was Fly Records and found their contact details on Facebook, I then emailed the record label, which can be seen below:

We are still waiting for a response from the record label, but we understand record labels are extremely busy, so my group and I are continuing to plan and create our music video for Blame Calvin Harris John Newman.