music licensing
Rights for tunes
Music licensing is the process of obtaining legal permission to use copyrighted music.
Recording a song, using it in a film, playing it in a business, or sampling it in another track all require licenses from rights holders—typically publishers and record labels.
The documentary's budget doubled once they factored in music licensing.
Different uses require different license types: synchronization licenses for visual media, mechanical licenses for recordings, performance licenses for public play.
- copyrightExclusive reproduction rights
- royaltiesOngoing payments to creators
- ASCAPMusic royalty organization
- film scoringMusic composed for cinema
- intellectual propertyLegal rights over inventions
rights holder · composers · sync · public performance · cue sheet · record labels · songwriters · clearance · fair use · BMI · derivative works · streaming platforms · soundtrack · master · broadcast · mechanical · placement · publishing
- music businessrecord label, record deal, royalty, album, single
- Film Budgetsproduction costs, above the line, below the line, contingency fund, line items
- arts lawart fraud, fair use, intellectual property, looted art, restitution claims
- church techsound system, projector, PA system, live stream, microphone
- entertainment lawcopyright, distribution rights, trademark, trademarks, infringement
- music rightscopyright, performance rights, publishing rights, broadcasting rights, broadcast rights
music licensingcopyright infringement
Unauthorized use of protected works
unauthorized use · bootlegging · pirated music · file sharing · infringement
music licensingpublic domain
Unprotected creative works
creative commons · copyleft · open access · folk tradition · communal ownership