Hi,
I have a question regarding use of classical music such as Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven etc in a soundtrack. When it comes to publishing rights what is done? I mean, If we were to record a string quartet or movement of a concerto for a score, how do we go about getting the rights to the piece? Do we just automatically have them as it is public domain music? Or is it?
I would assume that its PD and there is no publishing due, but, assumption is sometimes the mother of all fuckups as they say, so no harm in asking!
Ciaran
www.ciaranhope.com
I have a question regarding use of classical music such as Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven etc in a soundtrack. When it comes to publishing rights what is done? I mean, If we were to record a string quartet or movement of a concerto for a score, how do we go about getting the rights to the piece? Do we just automatically have them as it is public domain music? Or is it?
I would assume that its PD and there is no publishing due, but, assumption is sometimes the mother of all fuckups as they say, so no harm in asking!
Ciaran
www.ciaranhope.com
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Re: A question on using 'classical music' in film
Wed, April 27, 2005 - 9:45 AMI think that the pieces are public domain, and licensing is only an issue if you are using an existing recording. If you record it yourself, I think you're fine. -
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Re: A question on using 'classical music' in film
Wed, April 27, 2005 - 12:23 PMThat goes right up to anything written in the 20th century. After 1904, however, the various publishers and estates get a bit testy, so you gotta watch out when recording Stravinsky, Holzt, Copeland and most Debussy.
Somewhere in that time, they all figured out how to renew copyrights. -
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Re: A question on using 'classical music' in film
Wed, April 27, 2005 - 12:25 PMWhat about Rimsky-Korsakov? -
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Re: A question on using 'classical music' in film
Wed, April 27, 2005 - 3:01 PMI hope it's PD, since I just did an arrangement of that pesky Bumblebee for somebody's trailer. -
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Re: A question on using 'classical music' in film
Wed, April 27, 2005 - 9:12 PMEeeeew... probably the most misrepresentative piece in the history of composers... I'll take the the Russian Easter Overture or Spanish Capriccio or even Scheherezade over that gawdamn bumblee piece(which is taken so out of context from it's home opera that people now think it's a stand alone piece) -
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Re: A question on using 'classical music' in film
Wed, April 27, 2005 - 9:17 PMActually, in listening to parts of Scheherezade, I realized that John Williams borrowed heavily from it for the scores to Star Wars episodes I and II (as he borrowed heavily from Holst's The Planets for the original trilogy scores)... he seems to like to draw on the classics for Star Wars inspiration and structure... of course Zimmer lifted entire sections of score from Holst's Mars, God Of War for the "Battle" and "Barbarian Horde" themes of the Gladiator score...
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