Music legal question
Hey,
Can anyone offer any thoughts to this please. A mate did a remix of a dance guy's track (originally released years ago, aka not current) a while ago and wants to release it, the original artist loves the remix and is up for this.
My mate has been trying to get permissions from the labels but they're stonewalling him, not replying, only replying at pain etc and it's basically getting him nowhere and at the remix is doing nothing.
My mate ultimately just wanted to get his name out there a bit, not necessarily make any money or anything. Therefore what what peeps here think about him releasing it for free, youtube, maybe a mediafire link, email some blogs etc.
As in, release it without the explicit permissions of the label, but without trying to sell, just with trying to use it to build some buzz. Would that be stupid, esp as he has technically had conversations with them, even if it resulted in nothing, or do you think they ultimately wouldn't care as they've shown no interest so far.
Basically my mate doesn't want his remix to do nothing but doesn't want to get himself in trouble and doesn't know what to do. Thought I'd see if any muso's on here could suggest what to do! Thanks!
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Just chuck it on soundcloud
if the label have a massive problem with it they'll get it removed.
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I work
in music licensing -- in the US. How it works here is you don't need permission from the label, they presumably, only own the master recording. If the artist owns his own compositions (publishing) he can grant the right to do the remix Or check with the PRS to see if they offer a reproduction right which would be the right to do a "cover" version which is similar to a remix of a song.
Just tell `your mate` to do whatever he wants with it
and leave the decrepit and corrupt music industry as the shitheap that it is.
Sweet
Will tell him to put it out and not worry about the label etc.
Cheers!
Just put it out and hope for publicity-increasing Death Grips style label-dramaz
but realistically if they don't care enough to reply to an inquiry then they probably will never even notice it's on soundcloud
He could email the labels....
.... Advising them that he's going ahead with the release and that their lack of response has to be taken as indiffence. If they have an issue with that you'd have to expect a response.