Hey guys! Welcome back! Today we will be talking about our process for getting access (legally) to use the music/songs that we want to use in our video.
In our music video, we are going to have 2 primary songs. The first song is a sad song, and this is the song that we will need to get access. We will get the crazy rock song that is also in our music video from a database that is copyright free. The main reason for this is because sad songs are harder to distinguish if not well known, while the angry, rock style is easy to distinguish through loud drums and other instruments that help to portray this mood. However, if the company does not reach back on time, we will have an appropriate sad song available through the copyright free database as well.
Ok so let's move on to the process. I started off my research by simply looking up how to gain access to well-known songs. I found an article published by Copyright Alliance titled, "How To Get Permission To Use A Song," and it explains how you don't need to necessarily email the music producer to gain access to the specific song, because many songs are part of SESAC, a music rights organization from the US that let's you request permission directly from the SESAC website (faster an easier). The article included the links for both finding if the song is part of SESAC, and the link for requesting access to the specific song. However, I quickly realized that the process might take a while, as SESAC is a large copyright company that has a lot of business. I still emailed them though and I received a message that they will respond within 24 hours.
However, if we do not have success through this database, we know another database that is copyright free which will also work.
After we knew how to gain access to the songs, we minimized our list to our top 2 songs, in order to focus on getting permission from these 2 songs. One of the songs is part of SESAC, while the other is not (copyright free database). We will use whichever gives us permission first, as we know that both songs would work well in our project. Here are our top 2 songs:
interscope records
1. Sam Smith- Stay With Me
2. David Fesliyan- Goodbye, My Friend
We also found a great copyright free database for the rock song in our video. The link is here for this database: https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com/royalty-free-music/metal-rock
As per the link for the sad song database, the link is here: https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/downloads-c/sad-music/1
That pretty much sums up our work for today. I am satisfied with our work today because we not only learned something new, but we also figured out which songs we are going to be using and are on the verge of finishing our project!!!
Join me next time when I will be talking about our editing process transition, as well as give an insight on our film reflection from our final filming portion that we completed this past weekend!
Until next time :))),
Natalia Ballinas
Research Links:
https://copyrightalliance.org/faqs/how-to-get-permission-to-use-a-song/
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