foogledricks Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 People have been telling me to start my own business. Make baby videos. Make wedding videos. So I am testing out the waters. Some of you have already seen a few of my videos. Wish me luck. Since my specialty is music videos, I need to figure out how to license music for those videos. The nature of the licensing is that I'd make a single copy of the music on DVD, as part of a music video, and would sell that DVD to a single customer. Is their a common license type for this? How does it work? As an example, I went to Lonestar's web site (as well as their label Sony BMG), and could not find anything about how to license their music. And I don't know what to expect either. I am kind of scared. Is it a percentage of each sale (I'd prefer that)? A flat fee? Any info would be helpful. I was given the number of a lawyer that does this type of stuff, but he'll charge me $300 just to say "hello" I bet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 Talk to ASCAP, I believe. If not them, there's another organisation that collects royalties etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foogledricks Posted August 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 Thanks B. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlucci Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 Hey Keith, what did you find out on this? Is it expensive as I think it's going to be? About 15 years ago I was kinda sorta the Assistant [to the] Office Manager for a small group of employees working in our company's training center. When they set up the phones, dude showed me where you could plug in a radio to have "music on-hold" for our customers. So I did just that. Somebody ratted us out, and I got letters from ASCAAP and BMG basically saying pay us or cease-and-desist. They wanted about $1500 a year each for the privlege of playing the radio station for our customers on hold. Naturally, we just yanked the plug. Carlos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foogledricks Posted September 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 I have gotten no response from the Sony rep I contacted who was supposed to be the precise person to talk to. It is such a PAIN IN THE ASS to do this. Obviously the publishers are most interested in getting the big bucks, so someone like me is just an annoyance I bet. And I have a hunch that all the people who doing wedding videos don't even license the music at all. So the fact that I'm trying to be honest about it and having such a hard time is frustrating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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