Using music for a commercial product or service
Type of use
Using music for a product or service for promotional or commercial purposes. For example, using music to promote a product or a service.
What To Do
- Identify the rights holders of the piece or music and/or sound recording.
- Ask the rights holders for the permission to associate their piece of music and/or sound recording to your product or service.
Simplified procedure:
If you are not familiar with those procedures and fee negotiations, go through a copyright clearance company.
Clarifications and cautionary statement
Following the process to the letter in obtaining a permission and a licence in due form and being able to pay the tariff does not mean you will automatically get that permission. The songwriters, performing artists and their publishers as well as the rights holders of the sound recording can oppose the pairing of their work to a product, service or cause, whether it’s political, humanitarian or social and whether it is for business or personal purposes. You must obtain their permission.
Related uses
- - Using the likeness and/or voice of performing artists and/or songwriters
- - Commission of original music
- - Using existing piece of music, with or without sound recordings
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