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RJI
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Location: Champaign, IL
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 Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:05 pm Post subject: Getting permissions |
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| The comic book is alright. Some years ago I was doing a project about teaching music in elementary school. I begged the instructor not to use any copyrighted material in the segments we were shooting. Before I knew it they were singing "The Sound of Music" and setting Dr. Suess poems to music. I should have stopped taping. But I didn't. I spent the next couple of weeks trying to get people to answer my letters and return my phone calls. It seems if there's no money in it for them there's no need to reply. If you don't have permission in advance to use a "performance" don't even bother to roll tape. |
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gregs
Joined: 02 Jun 2006
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Location: Champaign, IL
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:20 pm Post subject: Re: Getting permissions |
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| RJI wrote: | | The comic book is alright. Some years ago I was doing a project about teaching music in elementary school. I begged the instructor not to use any copyrighted material in the segments we were shooting. Before I knew it they were singing "The Sound of Music" and setting Dr. Suess poems to music. I should have stopped taping. But I didn't. I spent the next couple of weeks trying to get people to answer my letters and return my phone calls. It seems if there's no money in it for them there's no need to reply. If you don't have permission in advance to use a "performance" don't even bother to roll tape. |
And one of the scary messages from the comic book is just how broad the definition of a "performance" may turn out to be. I've pretty much come to the conclusion that I should use no music or other material written after 1900 in my productions ... which happens to be a good fit with my own tastes which run to classical, ragtime and traditional folk music, but it wouldn't work for everyone.
I can see the credits now: "Words by William Shakespeare, music by Scott Joplin." 
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Greg Smith N9LHI
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