I'm looking for some help understanding standard practices regarding
permissions, contracts, and fees for use of nature recordings for film
ambiances.
I recently received an email asking:
"Your recordings are great! I think I would like to order some. I
would like to use it for my job, which means for film-ambiences. (no
re-selling, of course). Problems with this?"
To which I replied something like:
"Any use beyond personal listening will require special permissions
that may or may not require a fee depending on the scope of the
specific project."
To which they replied back:
"A permission for a single project is not helpful for me. I would like
to add the records to my personal sound library and therefore need the
permission to use it in any film, I will work on. By the way, that's
how commercial sound libraries e.g. "Sound Ideas" handle it: You buy
the CDs and you get the permission to use it in any synchronized project."
I'm curious how others would handle a similar situation =96 especially
knowing many on this list, besides being nature sound recordists, also
work in music and film.
John Hartog
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