Re: whats the score with music copyright on soundstracks added to your

Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 15:31:24 -0700
Newsgroups: rec.video.desktop
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Bobby Gainsburger wrote:
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> Of course the examples you cite are CUSTOM APPS specifically designed
> and written by THIRD parties for the task at hand. I would imagine
> that Disney spent hundreds of thousands dollars for this as well as
> the Telco. Certainly you will not get a state of the art rendering
> system for doing movie quality work with a freebie ISO download of
> Mandrake which is my point of my sig; the 3000+ chunks of unfinished
> software thrown in the average distro are next to worthless for Joe PC
> (I'm not talking about the Linux Übergeek here)make much use of let
> alone to configure.
>
> So I stand behind the gist of my sig.
>
Well, I use free tools and get better results than I can in Windows, in less
time, at least for encoding DivX.
I also use free capture/edit tools in Linux that do things that none of my
Windows apps can, and none require any geek knowledge other than how to read
and follow instructions...
>
> >
> >Anyway, to the subject at hand, when I paid a recording company to
> >license music for a screensaver I was selling, the agent outlined the
> >terms, graciously accepted payment, confirmed the deal in writing, then
> >said - "but if you hadn't paid, we would have never known anyway".
> >
> >I was a bit stunned at his implication. Still, I thought it was a small
> >price to pay to keep myself out of court, potentially.
>
> What is a typical charge for this, out of curiosity if you don't mind?
> >
>
> Bobby
>
It depends on the music company and the use and the number of units you
distribute. In my case it was something like $0.25 per unit. I had to license
a certain amount of units up front - ended up licensing more than I needed,
getting in right before the dot-crash, as it were. Seems kind of of a pain,
but it kept me legal. This was a pretty small company, the name of which
escapes me. I had bought a CD at the local Comp USA with "presentation music"
on it. It was supposed to be "free to use" - until you read the fine print.
Free in that case meant free for personal use, or things like company
presentations but not as part of a production for sale. Anyway, YMMV.
These days I really like Smart Sound...
Cheers,
--Keith