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Film scoring ethic

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I wonder if doing a score to a short footage will violates a copyright. Anyone has an experience about this? Next year I must have some kind of portfolio to show. And I think I'm gonna rely so much to cut scenes. Or otherwise if I can find some public domains that I can use also for practicing. But how many of them could be out there and in many genres that I need to cover.
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The answer is It depends. You are asking about a sync license. That you don't know this indicates that there is a lot you don't know about the music business.

Internet forums are horrible places to obtain correct answers to questions such as yours. Although there are a number of us with well-meaning good advice, without precise knowledge of your circumstances, it could easily be wrong because we don't know enough about you.

I can tell you that music and sound recordings published in the US before January 1, 1923 are in the Public Domain. This will not change until 1/1/2019 when the date moves to Jan 1, 1924. I hope that helps.

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If it's just for your reel, as a work sample, I wouldn't worry about licensing.
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Agreed.
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I don't disagree.

The naivete of the question raised a serious red flag, IMO.
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Actually a green flag.
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Thanks, everyone.

I think I'm gonna use vimeo for my samples instead of youtube as the later tend to close down any uploaded 2-3 minutes insignificant snippet of known movies even for a beginner who's starting to get an opportunity by using an orchestral mock up.
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Fact is, it would be pretty odd for a big film studio to care much about you scoring a segment for an exercise. Legally you can't but in the real world it's not a big deal. Just don't try to sell the video.
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I'll add to this the Internet Archives is a depository of free license films, although mostly black and white, it's what I plan to use to learn the details of doing score work. :)

https://archive.org/index.php

Same thing applies though, don't try to sell it, most of this is simply out of license, not free to use to make a profit.
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