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From: foo@erfordia.rice.edu (Mark Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Where to find tunes for a homemade video?
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Date: 30 Nov 90 21:16:49 GMT
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   What is needed to include a musical piece in a video soundtrack as 
 far as copyrights go? 

   That is, if you can't talk Bobby McFarrin into doing an original tune
 for your soundtrack, what can you legally use? For instance, there was a
 Symbolics piece, "Ductile Flow", in the 1990 SIGGRAPH Film and Video 
 Theatre that used a pop tune (I can't remember which). What would you 
 have to do to use something like that?  

   On a similar note, what about soundtrack libraries I see in video
 magazines? What are the typical costs of such things? (I assume it 
 would be way too high for me). Any hints on who might have such a 
 library (colleges? Libraries? )

  - Mark   (Video Novice)