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Jan 31, 2003, 2:15 PM
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: Any informed opinion on this.
: In a doc. I'm producing one of the characters is riding in a car and listening to the radio, reaches down to turn up the volume and responds physically to the music. Then I'm showing people at the event she's riding to with the music still under, then back to her riding in the car listening, responding. It's real video (in a doc. about develepmentally disabled people) not staged. But the music that she turns up on the radio is exactly appropriate for the scene in sound and lyrics.
: I don't know what the song is though one phrase of its lyric is very distinct, what the radio station might have been. My reading of fair use rules doesn't help a lot. This is a non-profit doc. that won't be sold but will be broadcast non-commercially and distributed free on vhs and CD rom.
: Any ideas about rights to use the music. Thanks in advance. This is a great forum.
Hi Chris,
If the music cannot be changed ex: you are at a function and the back ground musis is playing
and its a recognizable song, again, it cannot be changed, its ok to use it in a doc.
but if you can change it at all ou will not be able to use it with out permission.
I did a car show video which was to be sold to the public, it had
music in the background that my camera picked up, I let it run its
course, the band that was playing wanted royalites for it, but it was found that the music could not be changed in the background.
If i had added the music as a sound track they would have been given a royality.
Your project might be the same, if you could not change the music at all.
If it is completly not staged.
good luck, jes
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