videobear
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Oct 4, 2004, 9:17 AM
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Do two things:
1. Contact the Harry Fox Agency, http://www.harryfox.com , to secure a "mechanical license" for the music you want to use. There is a small fee for this.
2. Contact the individual music publishers of the pieces and request permission for a "synchronization license". Describe your project and its intended purpose. Be sure to explain that this project is not for profit, and let them know how many copies will be made and how large an audience you expect to reach. Offer to include them in the credits. With luck, they will grant permission at no cost. If they say no, or want more money than you're willing to pay, then you can't use that piece.
Or you can get some royalty-free music from any of the buyout music libraries out there. Do a web search on "royalty free music" or "buyout music". You can search and preview the music over the web, and many libraries will let you buy music on a per-song basis.
Another option is to have a local band record original music for your project. Surely at your school there are more than a few musically-inclined people. NOTE: The band can NOT legally perform a copyrighted song for you (without getting a "performance license", and then you still need the synchronization license). It's got to be their music.
Yet another choice is to compose and "perform" your own original music on the computer, using a loop-based composition program like Sony ACID.
Regards,
Doug Graham
Panda Productions
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