how they're used and distributed. Music, books, video and software can all be covered by copyright law. There are limitations imposed by copyright for example it forbids you from; giving a copy to a friend, making a copy and then selling it, using the software on a network (unless the license allows it) and renting the software without permission of the copyright holder. The law that governs copyright in the UK is called the copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998. The reasons why
Without having the permission from the original artist to adapt their work, you could be used and taken to court. An example of an artist provoking copyright in the music industry is the Marvin Gaye case. This involved Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams and the issue was that their song Blurred lines had elements in which it copied the 1977 hit Got to give it up by Marvin Gaye. In result of this, both musical artists had to pay Marvin Gaye's family $7.4 million for their violation of copyright which was even taken to court. Justin Bieber and Usher also come up against the same situation as they were fined $10 million due to the song "Somebody To Love" having similar musical features for example an almost "identical rhythm and strikingly similar melody" to the same titled song Somebody to love by Devin Copeland aka De Rico and his songwriting partner Maerio Overton. Therefore this shows that if anyone in the music industry was to copy in anyway another artists song, there will be consequences that may result to a lot of money being taken away, reducing profit.
So we decided that in order to avoid having the same situation as the artists mentioned of having to pay for using other peoples musical work without permission, we emailed the record label that Birdy belongs to and asked them for their permission to use her song for our music video so that we do not breach the copyright law. Also, we had to apply for copyright so our media coursework;music video, was eligible to be shown to the exam board OCR and our media class. 
We did this by going on the internet and searching which record labels Birdy belonged to who are Warner Bros. Records, Warner Music Group and 14th Floor Records, and emailed them whether we could obtain the rights of her song in order to create our music video. We did receive a response from one of them, but they stated how they are not the right person to get permission and forwarded us with a phone number which belonged to the legal department and called them instead to receive permission. After calling the phone number, they simply gave us permission and now we have rights to use Birdy's song Wings for our music video. 
This post demonstrates a proficient understanding of why music copyright is essential to carry out. You have identified the main points from the law, and have also included an example from the industry to support the points that you have made on the law.
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