Legally buying music for movie, help please
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Nope.
You need a license to use it for that particular use. You need to go through the Performing Rights Society to obtain a licence and I have to admit having sourced music for my website I found the PRS to be like drawing teeth.......only less fun. So i bought royalty free music instead and I can use that for anything I want
Google Royalty Free Music and there are loads of sites you can purchase from.
Downloading from itunes is not different in licence terms to buying a CD from a supermarket. It's for personal use only. Anything commercial that will be sold or played on commercial premises requires a licence.
You need a license to use it for that particular use. You need to go through the Performing Rights Society to obtain a licence and I have to admit having sourced music for my website I found the PRS to be like drawing teeth.......only less fun. So i bought royalty free music instead and I can use that for anything I want
Google Royalty Free Music and there are loads of sites you can purchase from.
Downloading from itunes is not different in licence terms to buying a CD from a supermarket. It's for personal use only. Anything commercial that will be sold or played on commercial premises requires a licence.
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What sort of stuff are you after?
Any music released under copyright has draconian public performance clauses attached. That goes whether you play it in pubs, clubs, hotels or the internet. Doesn't matter whether you purchase a hard copy or a download. You can't legally have, say, a ** track as your performance music.
Just like home taping, most of this gets turned a blind eye. The RIAA/MPA etc have bigger fish to fry, and policing it is difficult. But, there's always that tiny chance that you get caught.
Plenty of TP members produce their own music, which they may decide to make available to you, free for you to use within reasonable limits [i.e. don't go approaching music labels pretending it's yours..]. I'm one of them. So, what sort of stuff are you after?
Interestingly, TP seems to think that **, the world's biggest band, is a swear word. Bono, Edge, Clayton, Mullen - just typing these to see if it edits those out aswell...
Any music released under copyright has draconian public performance clauses attached. That goes whether you play it in pubs, clubs, hotels or the internet. Doesn't matter whether you purchase a hard copy or a download. You can't legally have, say, a ** track as your performance music.
Just like home taping, most of this gets turned a blind eye. The RIAA/MPA etc have bigger fish to fry, and policing it is difficult. But, there's always that tiny chance that you get caught.
Plenty of TP members produce their own music, which they may decide to make available to you, free for you to use within reasonable limits [i.e. don't go approaching music labels pretending it's yours..]. I'm one of them. So, what sort of stuff are you after?
Interestingly, TP seems to think that **, the world's biggest band, is a swear word. Bono, Edge, Clayton, Mullen - just typing these to see if it edits those out aswell...
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I had a horrible feeling that might be the case. And then they'll be the first to moan about artists being ripped off :bonk:
Thanks for the heads up on Royalty Free, I'll take a google
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you could try :
http://www.sbiglobal.com/uk/flash/index.php
At mate of mine uses them for backing tracks for his act, i'm sure if you dropped them a mail they would answer if you could use them on a movie.
prices are not bad either.
http://www.sbiglobal.com/uk/flash/index.php
At mate of mine uses them for backing tracks for his act, i'm sure if you dropped them a mail they would answer if you could use them on a movie.
prices are not bad either.
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Try these royalty free but also FREE music sites.
And when I say FREE I am not lying like google does!
http://ccmixter.org/view/media/remix/browse?tags=instrumental+-male_vocals+-female_vocals
http://www.jamendo.com/en/
http://freeplaymusic.com/
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/
And when I say FREE I am not lying like google does!
http://ccmixter.org/view/media/remix/browse?tags=instrumental+-male_vocals+-female_vocals
http://www.jamendo.com/en/
http://freeplaymusic.com/
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/
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If you buy a PRS license, it doesn't end there.
You would also need to approach the artist involved, or their management company.
The costs would be huge, making it out of reach for most.
There are great efforts to simplify the process and make it more affordable going on at the moment but, for now I would go with royalty free.
You would also need to approach the artist involved, or their management company.
The costs would be huge, making it out of reach for most.
There are great efforts to simplify the process and make it more affordable going on at the moment but, for now I would go with royalty free.
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If the movies are hosted by YouTube, you can use their AudioSwap option and select a track to use, legally.
The samples are low bitrate, but I fish them out of the browser cache, extract the MP3 from the FLV and convert to the WAV that the slide show maker I use can handle, so I can get the timings right, then let YouTube insert the better quality track after uploading.
The samples are low bitrate, but I fish them out of the browser cache, extract the MP3 from the FLV and convert to the WAV that the slide show maker I use can handle, so I can get the timings right, then let YouTube insert the better quality track after uploading.