Contrary to the belief of many, it is okay to copy! But of course, only with proper acknowledgment and within certain restricted guidelines. According to the Australian Copyright Council, one permissable use of others' materials is the pursuit of study and research (virtually interchangeable terms), but only within boundaries. Use of others' materials for research and study is limited to what is deemed "fair use". In pragmatic terms, this means copying is permissible, but to the limited extent of 10% of the pages (or 10% of the words if the source is electronic), or 1 chapter (hard copy or electronic), or 1 article from a given journal.
The use of music in personally constructed videos is a bit less clear, given that the music source can be multi-sourced (CD, DVD, internet?) and multi-layered, often being coupled with video and complicated by the separate ownership of lyrics, music and performance. Generally speaking, it appears that use of audio tracks as background to videos used for educational purposes would not result in copyright infringement, unless the source used (eg CD rom) specifrically forbade such use via the license agreement under which the material was downloaded or otherwise acquired.
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