[MacDV] Re: Using Commercial Music in a Video

[Lisa Kirsch]

Thank you very much for the reply, however I am now more confused than 
ever =) Here is a short list of what I'm referring to. I guess it never 
actually says "commercial music" on a CD, but that's what I assumed.

 From an e-mail:
"Based on the number of photos and providing you have the music ready 
to go on CD I would estimate $100 plus tax."
 From web sites:
"You simply supply  the music and photos ... The music (on CD) must be 
loaned to us."
"For example, if you have 250 photos, the final video will last 
250/10=25 minutes. Then you need to provide us with music (on CDs) that 
lasts at least 25 minutes."
"Photo Montage - A passionate photo montage of the bride and grooms 
life story. Video set to your choice of background music (provided on 
CD or tape)."
"VHS & DVD Package includes ... Music of your choice (CDs only)"
"We recommend supplying all music on CD for optimum quality."

I could come up with a lot more examples from web sites (those are only 
from the first page of Google results), but I imagine you can see the 
pattern... and understand why I am confused :-/  I guess they expect 
the customers to provide royalty-free music?

--Lisa Kirsch




On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 11:03 PM, Steven Rogers wrote:

>
> On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 12:54 AM, Lisa Kirsch wrote:
>
>> other sites seem to suggest that it's okay to use commercial music 
>> from the customer's CD. Is this correct? If so, is it because they 
>> own the song and I'm just essentially giving it back to them with the 
>> video?
>
> No, that's not correct. Buying the CD gives you the right to use the 
> music for that specific purpose, not as the audio track for a movie. 
> If forget what the industry term for that right is, but its a distinct 
> kind of use. Its probably in the realm of "nobody cares" when people 
> use their own music as background to movies that they author, but when 
> you're doing it for hire, you're moving out of that territory.
>
> SR