Last month, I took Deadly up on her first GA flight. I wrote it up at AOPA’s Let’s go Flying blog and posted some of the stills on Facebook. But, if the flight had a primary media goal, it was to put together a video.
I really wanted to use Enya’s piece, Storms in Africa, as the music, but (a) I’m a lawyer who works a lot with copyright and wasn’t about to just use the piece without permission and (b) the licensing landscape is so broken that it’s usually not possible to get a one-off license. Congrats, music industry. That would have been a quick and easy $200 or $300 for you that I would gladly have paid.
The good thing, though, is that YouTube has an arrangement with some labels that allows use of the music in YouTube videos and pays the artist/label/publisher a cut of the ad revenue. YouTube automatically identifies the song and runs the ads. So I get my chance to use the Enya Tube, but it has to be hosted on YouTube. In the end, I guess that’s a plus.
I’m pretty pleased with the video. Deadly seems to like it, too. A great morning for dad and daughter.
And, yeah, she got stick time.
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A VERY nice video. Reminds me of our twin girls. I really can see an aspiring pilot!
Most enjoyable, Steve. In a couple of decades she’ll be showing that to her kids, “This is when Granpa took me flying.”
Great video Steve. Interesting handles for the kids too, Fod and Deadly. What’s the dogs name? Chocks?
Happy Landings
John