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Legalities of Muic in Industrials?

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Cedi-Be-Me

Hello, all.

I'm doing an industrial / promo video for a small business and they want to add intro / outro music. Does anyone know the legalities around using music for such a purpose?

Thanks!
 
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Welcome to indietalk.

You must have permission for all copyrighted material you
use. Including music. You can buy royalty free music from
a variety of sources with is what most makers of industrial
and promo videos do.
 
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Thanks for the welcome, and for the answer.

I thought that was the case, but I'd hoped I was mistaken. So many corporate videos I've seen have such awful music, and now I'm getting clearer as to why.

Thanks again!
 
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There's also software solutions, such as SmartSound, that can generate music to your specific length in a wide varirty of styles.

You've probably heard it, if you've ever watched cheap cheesey local commercials on cable.
 
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I considered poking around Myspace for artists who controlled their own rights for a possible "use for publicity" agreement. But I'm not loving the idea of explaining to an accounting firm that their promo video needs a shout-out to a musical act...

So guess I will poke around the royalty free spots--any faves?
 
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directorik said:
There is some really good music available. The awful stuff is used
because some people are cheap and lazy.
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What he said!

There are many quite excellent royalty free libraries out there. And yes, there are lots of up-and coming composers who have personal libraries that could be used for the same purpose. The problem is the same one most indie filmmakers have; they forget to budget properly for post. The crappy royalty free music is under $50 a CD, the good stuff can be that much for a single track. What often happens - having experienced this myself - is the penny pinchers in accounting add up five individual royalty free tracks at $49.99 each, they log on to the website to order, see "Whole Library" for $49.99 and buy that instead.
 
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