License Music for TV
This license is for music used in a television production for public broadcast.
Any questions or problems with licensing? Email John Buckman.
This license will grant you syncronization and mechanical rights, to place the
licensed song in your TV production. We will not ask to see your work or exercise any
artistic control over the use of the music in your work. We don't think it's
right
for musicians to dictate what another artist's vision should be, and we hope you'll
honor the flexibility we give you by giving us your business.
We see to it that the music has had the appropriate legal rights
pre-cleared, and the music license you will receive contains a provision
indemnifying you of legal liability in that regard. We have licensed our music
to hundreds of projects,
including global megacompanies such as the
Regal Entertainment Group and Hitachi. You can rest assured that buying a license from us
will get you in the clear, and we're happy to physically sign a purchased music
license so that you have a hard copy as proof.
If your TV production does not yet have worldwide distribution, you can purchase the
smallest territory
license you need, and come back at a later date, to obtain a wider territory
music license. Many TV productions have started with the least expensive territory, and
after getting
picked up for distribution, purchased a worldwide territory music license (as
well as optional DVD and music compilation rights) at our standard published
rates.
If you need a "step license" that shows the increasing price of a
music license at increasingly wider distributions, just create several license
agreements for different territories using our forms (each contract ID will be named
CM######), and we will honor those price quotes as a step license when/if you come back to us later. You can
then use those price quotes with confidence in your proposals to others.
