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I would like to use some music for my currently-planned ad/trailer for Grand Central Arena. The problem is while I know something about copyright, fair use, and even contacting people for permission in the publishing world, I don't know about it for music, and especially not for some of the odder corners of it.
The video itself would not be earning money, so obviously it wouldn't be a percentage deal, and obviously I also can't afford to pay much.
The specific issues that come up...
1) Classical music: how does this work? Holst's _The Planets_ as a piece of music is clearly public domain, but I would presume that any given performance of it (Stokowski's , John Williams, the Polish National Orchestra's, whatever) is not, and thus I can't use it without permission as background for a video that I intend to use as advertisement (whether the video is free or not). Who would I contact? How much would something like this cost?
2) Japanese anime/videogame soundtracks. There's some really good music in these, and in some ways I've noticed the Japanese having more sane policies towards IP -- and more restrictive in others. Here, of course, I have no idea WHO I would contact, or how. (the games I'm particularly interested in at this point are Mana Khemia, Wild Arms 4, and Dirge of Cerberus)
The video itself would not be earning money, so obviously it wouldn't be a percentage deal, and obviously I also can't afford to pay much.
The specific issues that come up...
1) Classical music: how does this work? Holst's _The Planets_ as a piece of music is clearly public domain, but I would presume that any given performance of it (Stokowski's , John Williams, the Polish National Orchestra's, whatever) is not, and thus I can't use it without permission as background for a video that I intend to use as advertisement (whether the video is free or not). Who would I contact? How much would something like this cost?
2) Japanese anime/videogame soundtracks. There's some really good music in these, and in some ways I've noticed the Japanese having more sane policies towards IP -- and more restrictive in others. Here, of course, I have no idea WHO I would contact, or how. (the games I'm particularly interested in at this point are Mana Khemia, Wild Arms 4, and Dirge of Cerberus)
