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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel McAllister" data-source="post: 116633" data-attributes="member: 2431">Re: Couple of questions about &quot;stingers&quot; for corporate showsIn the UK at least, &#039;sync rights&#039; are required whenever commercial music is played alongside a moving image. For generic DVD productions, rights can be purchased at a fixed cost from PRS (and it&#039;s relatively cheap). The exclusions are things such as music to be played as part of TV adverts - anything like that requires approval from the copyright holders. In America, I believe mechanical rights are handled by HFA (<a href="http://www.harryfox.com" target="_blank">The Harry Fox Agency</a>). Again, you can purchase at a fixed rate per song, and it&#039;s not at all expensive. You&#039;d need to verify that they include &#039;sync rights&#039;, and enable you to use the music on a DVD.So the short answer is that you do definitely require a license for your intended use, and as someone else suggested, I&#039;d imagine the broadcaster will be familiar with how to go about it in the USA. I also imagine it&#039;s something that routinely happens without the users have a license, but that the rights holders probably turn a blind eye to if it&#039;s on a small scale DVD.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel McAllister, post: 116633, member: 2431"] Re: Couple of questions about "stingers" for corporate shows In the UK at least, 'sync rights' are required whenever commercial music is played alongside a moving image. For generic DVD productions, rights can be purchased at a fixed cost from PRS (and it's relatively cheap). The exclusions are things such as music to be played as part of TV adverts - anything like that requires approval from the copyright holders. In America, I believe mechanical rights are handled by HFA ([url=http://www.harryfox.com]The Harry Fox Agency[/url]). Again, you can purchase at a fixed rate per song, and it's not at all expensive. You'd need to verify that they include 'sync rights', and enable you to use the music on a DVD. So the short answer is that you do definitely require a license for your intended use, and as someone else suggested, I'd imagine the broadcaster will be familiar with how to go about it in the USA. I also imagine it's something that routinely happens without the users have a license, but that the rights holders probably turn a blind eye to if it's on a small scale DVD. [/QUOTE]

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