Licenses are often handled by the Harry Fox Agency. Rates can vary from
cheap to the absurd. But back in the 1990s some of the record companies
began offering 30 seconds of tunes in their catalog for $300 for some
uses. A record company president told me he thought the Fox Agency was
a bit out of step with the times when I told him how they wanted for
title we wanted to use. But sometimes the artists retain enough control
that they can intercede and offer tunes for use even for free if they
like the project.
On 06/17/2015 08:27 AM, anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
On the news this morning, the Trump campaign said they paid for the
rights to use the song. Song writers are not usually involved in
rights negotiations directly. For example an acquaintance of mine paid
about $500 to use four lines of one of Paul Simon's songs in a book.
Simon was not involved at all, it was just a standard fee for a
particular use, handled by his company. Be interesting to see how this
will pan out.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :
Neil Young: Donald Trump wasn't authorized to use my song
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