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Classical music and copyright
I want to use some classical music for my showreel on my web. Do I need to pay for it? I heard, the music could be long out of copyright, but any reproduction (recording) could be still under copyright. Anyway, many people (like Phillip Bloom) uses classical music on daily bases for their personal projects. Does it mean they are paying for it? How expensive could it be?
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Re: Classical music and copyright
Depends on what orchestra or group recorded it. You want Chicago or Cleveland? Gonna pay out the nose. If a lesser orchestra or group records it, could be very inexpensive. Chances are you can find production music versions of many popular classical music pieces. I'd suggest searching the libraries before stealing a commercially released piece. You will save a lot of time and money.
Problem with commercially released pieces is they are recorded under union rules which make the recording very expensive. No organization is going to give it away for free. I did a bunch of years of classical recording which included me winning an award for one particular piece. A compilation CD was put together and I ended up paying the sync rights on 5000 copies of the CD. That money went to the composer and orchestra. Your other option is to pay a musician or group to record the piece you want. Then you can tailor it to your needs and you own it. Done that a couple of times for commercials.
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Re: Classical music and copyright
thanks for the reply! what libraries do you mean?
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Re: Classical music and copyright
SmartSound has classical music that is licensed, just like they have other styles. I bought several of their collections on CD when they were on sale a while back. Check out their website. There are probably other sites that have licensed classical music at a reasonable price.
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Re: Classical music and copyright
APM and killer tracks are great. For royalty free, footage firm.
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Re: Classical music and copyright
Check out the Dewolfe Music production library online, They represent, among others, the London Philharmonic so that ain't no slouch of a band.
A surprising amount of music in the classical style actually is still in copyright. For example, Aaron Copland was writing in the 30s and 40s and his works are defintely still copyright.
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Re: Classical music and copyright
If the music is out of copyright (over 75 years after the death of the composer / arranger) and you record it yourself and have the musicians permission - all if fine.
If you use recorded music you will have to pay royalties to publish it on your show reel - the IOV do have a licence issued by the MCPS, if you have this licence check the conditions to see if it allows this. You can use library music as the fee you pay the library allows this.
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Re: Classical music and copyright
A bit of a harsh answer for a reasonable question.
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Re: Classical music and copyright
Composers, musicians and music publishers beg to differ :)
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To be sure there are PD facsimiles of old scores, and even modern "open-source" libraries to eliminate this issue. For example; http://www.thepublicdomainsite.com/ International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) Portal Copyright and Public Domain Music public domain music, public domain songs, public domain classical music http://www.pubdomain.com/ ezFolk Library Main Page - ChoralWiki |
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As an ex- professional musician myself (Violinist) I agree with you that unauthorised usage of music in video is a problem. There are plenty of decent Royalty Free classic albums about, and there are even more naff ones in circulation. Do a Google search, many of the suppliers have short samples.
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Re: Classical music and copyright
Sorry for the misinterpreted words but this is a personal issue for me as I'm a composer and musician too. I don't want to rehash all the threads out there about this but it is too common a thing for people to steal music. That's all I will say about that here. And I did offer several alternatives so hopefully the OP can find what he needs. The fact he's asking makes me a happy person!
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