Re: mechanical license

On 2/27/2000, Charles Kramer <tilyou1[_at_]aol.com> wrote:
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> (1) In my situation, the song will be used in a TV commercial.

The commercial producer needs to negotiate with the copyright proprietor of the song is a synchronization, performance and mechanical license (all in one). These can be generally negotiated for a fixed time and market (regional, local etc.) and generally for a flat, if many times quite expensive fee.

> (2) The song is not the original song -- lyrics have been changed (in
> part to serve their commercial purpose),

This is quite common for commercials and these provisions are covered in the above licensing deal. It's the right to make parody lyrics.

And of course, none of this covers the music portion of the spot which will either use the underlying recording music for which reuse fees are payable or will have to rerecord the music under union rules.

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