It's related to a song choice for the film. We wanted a slow, sad song during the black and white part of our film when our main character is "experiencing depression". The song "Black Wave" by The Shins is almost perfect in conveying the emotion we want. There was not much thought that went into this discussion but I informed my group and they seemed happy with the song. However we didn't really consider how we were going to get rights to use it in our film. I thought it might be quite easy because The Shins have an independent record label. After doing some research within Sub Pop Records, I found this useful bit of information;
WE WILL NOT GRANT ANY LICENSES FOR THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS: The Postal Service, The Shins, or Nirvana. There are far too many requests to be able to process any of these.
C. A sync license for a Sub Pop artist will run you $500, half of which goes to Publishing, the other half of which goes to Sub Pop. Just so we’re very clear here: this is a festivals, student film or non-commercial license only. Any “for profit” uses of the film are not authorized under the $500 license.
(Sub Pop Records website)
In short, we have to pay $500 if we choose another band (The Shins are not licensed) because this is what it will cost to get lawyers and so forth... it's not worth it. We can't pick a very popular song, because getting rights to popular songs is very difficult.
In short, we have to pay $500 if we choose another band (The Shins are not licensed) because this is what it will cost to get lawyers and so forth... it's not worth it. We can't pick a very popular song, because getting rights to popular songs is very difficult.
Anyway, on Friday our group was just browsing through songs and found a few good ones. We are yet to decide on a song.
BY EMILLY
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