Facebook is taking after YouTube in that they are coming down hard on anyone who uses copyrighted music in the backgrounds of their videos.  I've written about the first time I was truly slapped on the wrist about this back on YouTube on my blog here.

While I respect copyrights and artists and their work..let's be realistic.  Facebook is for the most part a personal medium when videos are uploaded to personal pages.   YouTube is used to make money and up to millions of people can see any given video if it goes viral.  But the video I was going to post?  It was one of my daughter playing at a museum to the wonderful music of The Weepies.  Shouldn't there be a way to attribute the music to artists by tagging them on Facebook - thus giving them credit and doing this before coming down hard on us?  Facebook needs to get on top of this... seems a bit extreme.

Update: I checked with a site such as FreePlayMusic.com (which has very generic no-namer music) and inquired about whether or not I could use any of their music for personal use on a private Facebook video and it would cost me $25.00 to license one song for an entire year.

Since creating videos of events/my daughter is a little passion of mine - music is obviously a big part of this process.  Since iMovie only offers a limited amount of background music, what are my options?  Facebook was safe haven in terms of not having to get scolded on this and now it seems I can't win all around. 

Please send me any ideas if you have them.