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Sometimes I see people put songs on their YT videos and they are songs like maybe lady gaga or bush or green day or something and maybe their video goes viral...do they have copy write problems...in example, if i wanted to make a video with my dog, and my dog was going to dance to britnay spears, and the video went viral, would I have a copy write problem? Could I get sued? I would really like to make some fun videos with my animals and use music and maybe they could go viral...but I don't want to take the risk of having any problems, so if I can't do this it would be great if you could offer suggestions of what I could do instead...with my pets and music in the videos that is :)Thank you, oh also, if it's like a britnay spears song but it's the instrumental, is that ok? ok thanks again. (link)
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Actually, your description falls under the definition of "Fair Use"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
Whoever owns Britney's copyrights (I doubt she does)could issue what's called a DMCA (digital millennium copyright act) takedown notice. However, given the content you intend to use it would not be a legal takedown and you could, conceivably, sue whoever issues the notice and win.
But no, you won't be able to be sued in any way and shouldn't be able to be harassed.
Copyright holders are always trying to take away fair use rights, people like you are always trying to exercise them. The worst that might happen is your video gets taken down. If that happens, just re-upload it and ask your parents about formatting a cease and desist letter targeted at whomever tries to express their control over your video.
More than likely it'll get completely left alone though.
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