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Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, 6th Edition
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Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, 6th Edition

by Peter W. Rea, David K. Irving
May 2025
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
14h 51m
English
Focal Press
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Appendix B Music Clearance and Insurance

Music Rights

All music is subject to copyright protection unless it is in the public domain (see the next section). Unless you only intend to show your film in a classroom or hire a composer to write original music, it is absolutely necessary to clear the music you intend to use in your film. Your film cannot be exhibited publicly (including on the Internet) without a specific grant to do so. This applies to festivals as well (see further on).

Clearance means determining who owns the copyright to a piece of music and negotiating a license to use that material for exhibition and distribution in specific territories and media in exchange for the payment of a fee to the copyright owner (see further on for ...

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