use of music in film - legal considerations

Rights of use

Publishing rights is where you get personal permission to use music that it belongs to and who is the owner of the rights. so the record label or the publisher of the music give you permission to use the music within your film.

Recording rights is more or less the same thing but the people whom actually created the music give you permission to use the music in your feature.

this can be done by contacting the performers them selfs.

another way this could be accomplished is by getting a different version of the song that someone created with the license to do it, then ask them if you are allowed to use their cover/version of the song.

the person who created the alternate version is more likely to reply and allow you to use the music piece.

with rights of use you need make sure you are clear of using this can easily be achieved by finding out the license the music has and what rights are behind it and also who owns those rights, then once you found it would be a simple case of contacting the owner of the rights and asking for permission.

issues concerning if the performer has died and if you can use their music, is simple if they have died 70+ years ago the rights and license have expired, so all that is required is to contacted the website of  where you have found the piece of music.

Creative Commons

Creative commons uses licences to expand the range of free to use music, this organisation does this so it can be used and shared publicly with the legal rights.

this helps the public acquire music for their own individual projects by giving them the chance to use the music.

creative commons exists due to the very restrictive licences on music and its exists to counter this problem of restrictive structures on the music.

it gains the licences for anyone to use the music and have less restrictions on them, so really creative commons is for everyone to get the chance to use music legally.

Different types of licences 

(BY) Attribution- music can be used as long as you credit them for their work.

(SA) Sharealike- the music is allowed to be edited but you have to make sure the edited piece is free to use as well.

(NC) Non-Commercial- its free to use the music as long as its not in a commercial and making a profit from it. 

(ND) Non-Derivative- it means you can use the original music for use however no editing is allowed

of course these are not just individual licences a lot of these  pair up and come into play together.

here are six examples.

(BY) Licence

(BY) + (SA) Licence

(BY)+ (SA) + (NC) Licence
(BY)+ (NC) Licence
(BY)+ (ND) Licence
(BY)+ (ND) + (NC) Licence

The music I will use in my sequence

song track: Hold hands while riding a bike.

genre: classical/inspirational

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why is choose this music.

the reason behind the choosing of this song is that its calm and not sad or happy its very walking pace because its suites well to the fact of the progress coach being very factual of the school and is not either angry or friendly he is just being helpful in the simplest way, so the music adds to the atmosphere of it being mediam emotion meeting in a neutral ground. it also has a steady beat playing through the track through out so its like the heart beat of characters or even adding the flow of the scene walking so keeps up a moving beat.

the genre of the piece is classical and very calm and meidam emotion level, with a correct tempo that is not too slow that make it seem sad or too fast to make it seem up beat and happy.