24 Jan
2008
24 Jan
'08
10:52 a.m.
Am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008 schrieb Cesare Marilungo:
I received an email from a film producer (based in Los
Angeles, probably
an indie studio) in which he wrote that the director of a movie they're
just finishing (they're at post-production stage) is interested in using
two tracks of mine, 'Balloon' (http://www.cesaremarilungo.com/media) and
'As we grow older' (http://www.cesaremarilungo.com/media/the-moon-ep).
I released these tracks under a non-commercial Creative Commons license:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed-music.
In the past some of my music has been used for some short films, but
these were clearly non commercial projects or film schools thesis.
Has anybody some experience on this topic? What should I do? Should I
re-license these tracks? Can I just make them a written permission? Or
should I ask for some kind of royalty (or would it be ridiculous, also
considering that AFAIK Gyorgy Ligeti has never been paid for its music
on '2001 A space odyssey' :-) )?
You can publish your works under every license you want. Can even be two or
more licenses. So you don't need to re-license the tracks you published on
the net, you can simply send them the tracks with a letter "I hereby grant
them...", you can define the rules in there too (like payment).
But they probably can not make you sign a letter stating that you give them
exclusive rights or even sell your rights to them unless you manage to remove
all the versions from the net (and the users computers/players)...
But I am not a layer and my knowledge is _very_ small.
Arnold
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