[d*d]

Anybody had any experience getting copyright to use a bit of music in an online campaign? also if anybody knows any good music library resources that'd be good too

[Brown]

are you after a specific tune or something generic?

[sub]

I'm sure it has always been using a track for anthing up to 30 seconds is legal - although I might be making that up!

[sub]

Also, Digital Vision used to do some great royalty free audio - not sure if they still do since Getty bought them out a while ago

[Guevara]

Originally Posted by subcircle

I'm sure it has always been using a track for anthing up to 30 seconds is legal - although I might be making that up!

It's 28 seconds, anything more and you have to pay for it

[smallbeer]

you sure? why do people have to get permission to sample music then?

[d*d]

I'm after a specific tune and have found out that the harry fox agency appears to grant license to use music in it's different forms (The music, not the performance), I will be using over 28 seconds and don't mind paying for a licence (so long as it's not silly money), was wondering if anyone had had to do this before?

[Guevara]

friend of a friend works for vtr north and deals with this kinda stuff all the time - he seemed pretty sure about the 28 second thing

[d*d]

Originally Posted by Brown

froth. this is more a case that people know they're not allowed to use a whole track on a site so they take a short sample. that then places you at the back of the prosection queue behind those using whole tracks. this has never been tested in a court of law.

In copyright law you are ok so long as you don't use a 'substantial piece' of the work, it's ok to stick a couple of pages from a book up online without permission, but not the whole book. Since there is no guidance for what constitutes a 'substantial piece' you get all these urban myths floating about

[Brown]

exactly, its never been tested in the courts, but would you want to be the person who provokes that test case?

[d*d]

No, I just want to know how to get a licence

[Brown]

contact the label the track is released on. they'll tell you who their person/company is in charge of licensing for whatever medium you want to use the music for.

beware - sometimes, different people have the rights to different regions (europe or usa).

[sub]

Originally Posted by Brown

sometimes, different people have the rights to different regions (europe or usa).

How do you control the regional usage rights of a track for use on the web?

[d*d]

Originally Posted by Brown

contact the label the track is released on. they'll tell you who their person/company is in charge of licensing for whatever medium you want to use the music for.
beware - sometimes, different people have the rights to different regions (europe or usa).

It's an old track that has been covered a few times, I'm not sure which label it belongs to and I don't need the performance copyright, I need the music copyright

[d*d]

http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/pd...ic-Legally.pdf

[d*d]

ah well, was denied permission- haws this 28 second thing work again?