Am I allowed to use that song?
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:56 pm
What a mad world! Our Belgian copyright organisation, called SABAM, wants lorry drivers to pay for the music they are listening to while driving their lorries. Also taxi-drivers must pay ! The question is : does SABAM pay the composers and the singers ?
The depression is not over yet. Everybody needs money "to make both ends meet". Exorbitant profits are made and exortortinate prices are asked. Maybe also in Britain and everywhere else. I have read the chapter about copyright music on this website again. If I understand it is even risky to use the song "Happy Birthday" in a film without any copyright permission. Some years ago I saw a funny animation film called "Fly Me to the Moon", made by one of our friends in the North West. Now I wonder : was he allowed to use that song? I have just visited one of the best IAC-clubwebsites. I have watched one of their films on U-tube. At the end of that funny film the actors start to sing a song. It would ridiculous if they had to ask permission for it or if they had to pay for it.
Now I intend to make a film about a short man. He's one of my clubmates. Bad friends always call him "lilliputter". He feels very sad from time to time. People can be very hard nowadays. The mentality has changed in the course of the last decades. That's my opinion. Or maybe I have become one of those old men who is moaning all the time and who thinks that everything was better in "the good old days".
Now I have written a story about a little man for my new film. At the end I would like to use the song "Short Man" sung by Randy Newman. It's a controversial song, but it would evoke strong emotions. My question is : Am I allowed to use this song? Do I have to pay to get the persmission? How much would it cost ? After having read the chapter about copyright on this website I think the rules are similar to those on the continent.
The depression is not over yet. Everybody needs money "to make both ends meet". Exorbitant profits are made and exortortinate prices are asked. Maybe also in Britain and everywhere else. I have read the chapter about copyright music on this website again. If I understand it is even risky to use the song "Happy Birthday" in a film without any copyright permission. Some years ago I saw a funny animation film called "Fly Me to the Moon", made by one of our friends in the North West. Now I wonder : was he allowed to use that song? I have just visited one of the best IAC-clubwebsites. I have watched one of their films on U-tube. At the end of that funny film the actors start to sing a song. It would ridiculous if they had to ask permission for it or if they had to pay for it.
Now I intend to make a film about a short man. He's one of my clubmates. Bad friends always call him "lilliputter". He feels very sad from time to time. People can be very hard nowadays. The mentality has changed in the course of the last decades. That's my opinion. Or maybe I have become one of those old men who is moaning all the time and who thinks that everything was better in "the good old days".
Now I have written a story about a little man for my new film. At the end I would like to use the song "Short Man" sung by Randy Newman. It's a controversial song, but it would evoke strong emotions. My question is : Am I allowed to use this song? Do I have to pay to get the persmission? How much would it cost ? After having read the chapter about copyright on this website I think the rules are similar to those on the continent.