Blogging about Copyrighted material...

[Claytonmu]

Can you write articles talking about copyrighted material?

For example:

Top 10 Movies of All Time
Best Songs of 2018

These topics would include copyrighted material(assuming you talk about popular mainstream movies & music)

Is this allowed? I'm assuming you can, because news websites talk about copyrighted things, but I wasn't 100% sure.

 

[KHR]

Can you write articles talking about copyrighted material?

For example:

Top 10 Movies of All Time
Best Songs of 2018

These topics would include copyrighted material(assuming you talk about popular mainstream movies & music)

Is this allowed? I'm assuming you can, because news websites talk about copyrighted things, but I wasn't 100% sure.

Yes you can write about them and also critique. But you can’t sell there any copyrighted materials without authorisation.

 

[doepjohn]

No issue with that at all.

You'd only have copyright issues if you had the videos/music available to view/download from your site.

You're fine.

 

[blackbeans]

The FAIR USE doctrine in the USA allows you to post SNIPPETS for commentary/review purposes

Top 10 listicles definitely qualify. Just make sure you don't post the whole work.

 

[Rank Cartel]

no issue , you don't write movie name in title so it is not bad

 

[beastkay]

Yes it is okay untill you don't use the copywrighted material in your posts.

 

[linkshake]

Can you write articles talking about copyrighted material?

For example:

Top 10 Movies of All Time
Best Songs of 2018

These topics would include copyrighted material(assuming you talk about popular mainstream movies & music)

Is this allowed? I'm assuming you can, because news websites talk about copyrighted things, but I wasn't 100% sure.

There is no question of copyright infringement because the blog is about your opinion about the said movies not a playback of the movies themselves. "10 best movies" blogs and even vlog reviews about movies are fine.