IF you are willing to let it go out and be profitable to someone else,
and you get a large enough one-time fee to make it feel worthwhile, go
ahead. But it is a big opportunity to craft a licensing fee, and
require royalties from all uses and public performances!
What this person is asking is what the record companies did for years
back in the early days - pay a pittance to performers for the music and
art, then make millions on it free and clear.
But since it is your personal work, you are free to sell or give it
away as you see fit.
If there were proper justice in this world, a hefty royalty would be
obtained and used to preserve the wildlife and the environment. That
would be only just, especially if any of the sound makers in the piece
were in any way endangered (which they all are ultimately).
Just my two cents on the issue.
Lou Judson =95 Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689
On Jan 14, 2007, at 10:03 AM, John Hartog wrote:
> 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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