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27. November 2005

Music Rights

I was going to post something about the R&B group Next, which I discoverd through pandora actually. This post would have included a mp3 with part of a song. Well, I thought, try and find out what do you have to do to present 2:00 minutes of that song completely legal on your blog.
 

Being resident of Germany I went to GEMA, the “society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights”. They have a repertoire search, I entered the song, refinded the search by entering one of the writers mentioned in the booklet as “name of interested party”.
The surprising result was a list of 10 full names and the publishing and sub-publishing companies.
I searched for the website of one of the german sub-publishers, which I found and got redirected to www.warnerchappell.com. I registered and filled out a license request for License Type “Multimedia” adding the comment “private, non-commercial blog, 2 Minutes, …”.
I am really curios what they are going to offer me.
 

More interesting on the GEMA result page was that every composer had a unique ID next to their name.
There MUST be a database for quering songs related to a certain composer and indeed, there is.
It is iswcnet.cisac.org/ISWCNET-MWI.
This is actually an even better database than Gema’s. Search for song title, composer name, composer id is available. Nice!, I gonna spent a lot of time there in the future I guess.


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