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Charlie Productions : License MusicTo use music in your film you'll need to arrange payment to the composer and performers. If this is your mate Keith then payment can usually be agreed in form of beer, if however you've just plucked a piece of music from your favourite album the process is more formal.To pay the performers you need to get in touch with the record label who own the copyright to the specific recording of the track in question which you wish to use. For instance in Burnt Bernard we rely heavily on a piece of music called "Mandinga" from the album "Introducing Reuben Gonzales" which is released by World Circuit Records. We rang directory enquiries, guessing that World Circuit would be based in London, struck lucky, got their telephone number, rang them up, begged a bit, sent them a copy of the film and they liked it and so agreed to let us use the recording in festivals for £100. However Reuben Gonzales did not write the piece, it was composed by Rodriguez Fiffe and his interests are covered by Peer Music Ltd who own the publishing rights to this song. So we contacted the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society (MCPS) and they contacted Peer Music who, thanks to nice Wendy at World Circuit, also agreed to let us have film festival rights for £100. We then paid MCPS who pay Peer Music Ltd and pay World Circuit separetly. Although we contacted World Circuit ourselves if you can't find the label's phone number anywhere then you can just contact MCPS who will arrange the whole thing - of course though if you go straight to the label you probably do stand a better chance of persauding them to let use the music at a cheaper rate, especially if you plead talent and poverty. Our license to use the music is limited to film festivals for one year and since a universal license for all forms of media in perpetuity is rather stupendously expensive (or least stupendously expensive for us who have no money) we've agreed to contact MCPS each time we have an additional use to sort out an individual payment, which varies in cost depending upon the platform. For instance if we were to let the fantastic Bill McCoid screen Bernard on Channel M, then that would cost us about £25 because the station is rather small. At the other end of the scale if we were to screen Bernard on Channel ,4 then we'd be paying £85 a second although thankfully we should be able to arrange a cap on about three minutes so we wouldn't actually pay more than about £500 (so that's a relief!). Obviously this doesn't include what we would need to pay World Circuit Records. Contact: Charlie Productions believe passionately in doing things and always trying to stop in
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