 A webcam can be used to webcast your ceremony.
Want everyone to see your wedding? Consider a webcast. Whether you use a chat program with multiple user networking, a public webcam forum, or have hosted streaming video is entirely up to you and your capacities. To do this, the first step is to see the internet capabilities of your wedding ceremony site. If your wedding site has broadband ethernet or WiFi, this is ideal. If not, see if you can run category 5 cables from an ethernet outlet at the location to where your ceremony will be held. If your wedding ceremony site has no broadband Internet access, you may want to consider hiring a professional videographer.
If you do not care if your wedding is webcast in real-time, you may want to consider a webcast after the event or a podcast. If you decide to do a webcast or a visual podcast, you will need a video recorder with digital capabilities. Once the webcast or podcast is edited (using video editing software such as Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere, iLife, etc.) you can provide a download link to it. If you do not have your own webhosting, there are free video hosting sites such as Google Video, OurMedia, and YouTube. Just be sure that the video/audio is recorded by you or a friend of yours who gives you the rights to it. If it is recorded by a professional, he/she will have the copyright on whatever he/she recorded.
There are some great tricks to edit your wedding video so be sure to check out that section.
Playing Music in Webcasts and Podcasts
| Tip: | This section deals with copyright law and is not to be construed as legal advice. If you are uncertain of anything regarding copyright law, collecting societies, or Creative Commons licenses, please consult an attorney who works with intellectual property. |
If you play a song on a webcast or a podcast, be sure that you are authorized to play it. You will need sufficient recording rights to the recording of the song as well as performance rights to the actual music of the song.
If the artist is a member of a performance royalties collecting society (such as ASCAP or BMI), you will have to contact the artist's appropriate collecting society to pay for the public performance rights to that artist's music.
If the artist's record label is a member of a mechanical collecting society (such as Harry Fox Agency), you will also have to contact the mechanical to pay for the recording rights to that artist's music.
However, not all artists are part of collecting societies. In that case, you will have to get permission from the artist directly.
Playing Creative Commons Licensed Music
There are some musicians who do license their music under Creative Commons licenses, most of which allow using music in webcasts and podcasts under certain conditions (music that is freely usable in podcasts is called podsafe, but not all podsafe music is CC-licensed). For CC-licensed music, however, read the specific provisions. Such music with licenses other than the Attribution license are not always podsafe. Creative Commons Wiki's Podcasting Legal Guide has well-defined guidelines on using material licensed with standard and Sampling licenses in podcasts.
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