Music licensing questions.

[bugbrain_04]

Originally Posted by brandondrury

Maybe. I'm a little pesimistic with people (read too many history books) but I would expect the average person to choose a school based the lighting in the picture or the size of the fountain out front. Just a thought.

I'm no psychologist, but I have a feeling a lot of things affect peoples' judgment and decision making that they aren't even aware of. I suppose lighting and fountain would fit that bill too. It's not like someone's going to think Man, that professional photographer captured that lighting perfectly! And that fountain, it's huge! I'm definitely going to that school.
Makes me wonder which affects our decisions more. Our conscious judgment, or the subliminal?

[brandondrury]

It's not like someone's going to think Man, that professional photographer captured that lighting perfectly! And that fountain, it's huge! I'm definitely going to that school.

I'm not sure that I agree. I think this is EXACTLY what people think....that is if they understand that lighting was important in photography. Again, I have near-zero faith in the human race. Watch E! Entertainment and it'll be perfectly obvious to you.

Brandon

[bugbrain_04]

I'm not saying that it doesn't go through their minds, I'd just like to think that they're unaware of the impact it may be having on their decision. That it all happens under the surface. Subconsciously. Because the thought of someone consciously deciding where they're going to be investing thousands of dollars toward their education, toward their future, is depressing at best.

But you do have a point. The overall stupidity of humanity on the whole baffles me on a daily basis. That's why I don't watch TV.

~Josh~

[hamd_89]

Originally Posted by bugbrain_04

O_o Huh? Why? Am I missing something?

lol, I was just saying that because you didn't go through the dirt road, and didn't make a fake license. It was just a joke, dont worry about it lol

[Ruzz]

Sorry to dig this old thread up, but it caught my eye...

Originally Posted by bugbrain_04

Can anyone help me here? (snip) I can't find the publisher of the composition, ...
~Josh~

From one who has done exactly what you want to do. ME.

The publisher is the key.

A publisher (as far as I understand how this all works) cannot deny you a license (and a license is what you're requesting) for a published work.

Once a work has been published (and there's nothing to say, one way or the other, whether that tune has been formally published) it's available for anyone to use, rework, extend... in other words, "cover" etc

Copyright is another matter entirely. By obtaining the Pub license you're clear. And forget that complete BS from Nintendo because... well, it's BS!

Now... is it possible a tune is copyrighted, and released and unpublished? Never heard of that happening before... but you never know... it certainly sounds like a legal "in-limbo" kind of mess.

Related Story: We wanted to cover George Harrison's "Something"... man, what a minefield. We got no joy from the contact info available at bmi.com. We tried and tried to get responses from various possible handlers of the estate. In the end, we ended up talking to (and I mean no offence by saying this) someone over email who "sounded" like a 14 year old kid. As far as we could determine, HE was the person to speak to but he had no clue what he was doing.

Anyway, cut a long story short, we didn't pay anyone, despite our best efforts. We kept all the correspondence (if you can call it that) and went ahead regardless.

Why? Because it's a published work and it cannot be denied a license (despite us not being able to obtain one in a physical sense).

Hope this gives you some pointers...

Ruzz

[JWhis]

If I am not mistaken, academic treatment of the work would fall in the 'fair use' clause of the copyright, even if it was hosted online in an academic setting, would it not?

[bugbrain_04]

Originally Posted by JWhis

If I am not mistaken, academic treatment of the work would fall in the 'fair use' clause of the copyright, even if it was hosted online in an academic setting, would it not?

If I'm remembering what I read back when I was really pursuing this right, no. As I recall, it would only be fair use if it was played (not distributed) or streaming (in the case of online classes) as part of the curriculum for a class, and it was only made available for students in that class.