Today I downloaded a YouTube video of (what I think is) a 1964 BBC Horizon broadcast of Arthur C Clarke, stripped the audio and cut it up for use in a track I’d put together. It’s all complete and I’ve uploaded it to SoundCloud.
Essentially, it’s my cackhanded take on the Public Service Broadcasting idea.
While I anticipate that only a few people are likely to feel obligated to show any interest in it, and while I strongly doubt there’s much possibility of anyone that matters caring that much, is anyone here able to point me in the direction of any good advice in respect of the sampling of non-musical audio from a TV recording? I can find lots about the legality of sampling, but it’s all musical stuff.
I think it depends on the copyright holder but I think generally the same rules apply to film and movie dialogue as do to recorded music but I think musicians and record labels are more likely to pursue than the BBC over an old 60s documentary.
Public Service Broadcasting get around this by often using material that is out of copyright or the public domain, old newsreels and suchlike that anyone can use.
Since you’re not selling the music, the worst than would happen is Soundcloud would take it down from their site (they do this already often with DJ mixes or mash-ups if they borrow liberally from other artists material).