hi Debbee You need to pay neighbouring rights, publishing, mechanical, synchronization and maybe some other rights. In the US, you can contact the orgs that others have mentioned in previous replies. I'm not sure if there is an official "one stop shop" for rights clearances. There are several companies that do it for a fee. Very importantly, if you decide to approach the creators of the work, you will need to get clearances from ALL of the rights holders- the songwriter/composer, the performer, and sometimes the various musicians on the performance. It's easier to go to the organisation and pay IMO. There are several fee scales, and non-profit and educational use does get a price break. For a well-written FAQ, check out http://www.signature-sound.com/11quest.html They will also do the clearances for you (for a fee, of course).
And I am thrilled that you are going about this correctly (even if a bit late...) and wanting to pay the artists for their work. Unfortunately you are still in the minority. But every time I see a question like this I feel better. Best of luck Jacqueline On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:40:41 +0100, Claude Almansi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Taran Rampersad wrote: > (...) > >>Debbee Williams wrote: > (...) > >>>I work for a non-profit organization, we have recently started providing > >>>digital arts programs. Creating movies, music, photo manipulation, etc. > >>>As part of the movies and some of the multi-media presentations we are > >>>doing, we are using music from copyrighted CD's as background. We > >>>started doing slide shows at an event highlighting activities for the > >>>year, while playing a CD in the background. Now we have advanced to > >>>creating short videos of the same thing, which are not only shown at a > >>>conference, but shared at board meetings and other gatherings where we > >>>want to showcase what we are doing. > > > > But there is another option: CreativeCommons makes all sorts of material > > available under Creative Commons copyrights licenses which allows the > > uses you appear to need, without having to keep a big stack of letters. > > Video, audio, text... http://www.creativecommons.org > > > > Taran, I was going to suggest the same thing when my computer crashed, > lol. Debbee You can also search for specific content under a Creative > Commons license, either from the search window in Firefox, or directly > from the http://creativecommons.org/find/ page, where the search engine > works with multiple entries. > > BTW, the fact that you thank your sponsors doesn't make your > presentation commercial. > > You reminded me that the flash presentation of "Percorso Arianna" > (http://www.vallemaggia.movingalps.ch/arianna/arianna1.html 3.3. Mb - a > Gender and IT training project) that can be downoladed from > http://www.vallemaggia.movingalps.ch/arianna/arianna.html also uses > recorded and probably copyrighted music: they first made a CD-rom of it > they used in the same way as you, then they slapped the mammoth online. > I'd better let them know too, so thank you. > > cheers > > Claude > > -- > Claude Almansi > www.adisi.ch > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE > in the body of the message. > -- ________________________________________ Jacqueline Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jacquelinemorris.com 868-680-1895 _________________________________________ _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
