Thanks for the info Griff. Music publishing is a fascinating subject (and ahighly complex one).
All the Best,
BRIAN
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Hi,
The following might help, but I DO know that the UK law has changed somewhat since UFO was made.
I have been told my my publisher (who used to act for some HUGE bands) thatin the sixties, it was possible to pay a music company a 'block payment' for use of their music in films "and could be used in just about any way theproducer/director saw fit during that film/sequence" . This would correspond with how "Get Back" was used in UFO, and also there were no credits given to the Beatles, and also the track "Get Back" was cut, tempo/speed changed up, and merged in/out with other stock UFO music.
This music track usage was viewed by the music publisher as a promotional piece (we may laugh at this now, but at the time the Beatles still needed topublicize their music, it was also a choice made by the publisher, and I doubt very much whether the Beatles knew anything about it at all) but ONLY if a partial piece of a track was played, and NOT a complete track.
Synchronization rights and royalties - A synchronization license is needed for a song to be reproduced onto a television program, film, video, commercial, radio, or even an 800 number phone message. It is called this because you are "synchronizing" the composition, as it is performed on the audio recording, to a film, TV commercial, or spoken voice-over. If a specific recorded version of a composition is used, you must also get permission from the record company in the form of a "master use" license. The synchronizationroyalty is paid to songwriters and publishers for use of a song used as background music for a movie, TV show, or commercial.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Griff
--- In SHADO@yahoogroups. com, Brian Serridge <brianserridge@ ...> wrote:
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> Can anyone tell me how much has to be paid in royalties to the music publishers of the Beatles song "Get Back" every time a "UFO" DVD is sold containing the edpisode "Ordeal"? Has this ever caused problems with clearance inthe past?
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> All the Best,
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> BRIAN
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> PS. I sent this e-mail to the forum on Saturday, but apparently it wasn'treceived. Anyone else experiencing similar problems?
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