Getting permission

[EmotionComplex]

When commercial mix cds are released how does the dj mixing them get permission for each track to appear on the cd and does the profit get sent to each label used from the earnings?

Just curious :)

[Hakka.]

I've never been 100% sure about this. I know the mail out companies can kick up fuss if they haven't been informed and find out the CD's are on sale with there tracks on... but I don't know. Ask a record label by e-mail I guess.

[Louk]

s'all about the royalties and advances.

Louk

[Tim Hidgem]

s'all about the royalties and advances.

Louk

Yep its true.

Most money to be made for Record companies is by licensing signed trax.

If money was to be made by selling a compliation CD then each record used has to have permission from the record label that has it has been signed too.

The label then sells the right to use this track (licensing) on the CD.

In most cases this is where most money is to be made for the record company.

Must be a ball ache though! :dontevengothere:

[DJTrubass]

The owner of the CD ie if it was Frantic residents 04 ..

Nukleuz have a lisence that tehy pay to ensure that every track they put out is legal to be included into their mix cd's.. which i imagin cost alot of money

[Hakka.]

The owner of the CD ie if it was Frantic residents 04 ..

Nukleuz have a lisence that tehy pay to ensure that every track they put out is legal to be included into their mix cd's.. which i imagin cost alot of money

so how does North, Helter Skelter etc... afford it when they have 12 tape packs of all each 90 mins long of DJ's playing 100's of tunes in total?!?!?

[Hakka.]

sorry trubass, that wasn't aimed for you but in general a question I was wondering if anyone knew?

[EmotionComplex]

i remember watching a video interview from dave clarke on his world service album just befoer it came out and he was saying he couldnt get all the tracks he wanted but he got a lot of them cleared so there must be a system were you have to clear it with the artist/label whatever but i think you get away with tape packs as there not actual releases but more archives of a night

[Louk]

The owner of the CD ie if it was Frantic residents 04 ..

Nukleuz have a lisence that tehy pay to ensure that every track they put out is legal to be included into their mix cd's.. which i imagin cost alot of money

so how does North, Helter Skelter etc... afford it when they have 12 tape packs of all each 90 mins long of DJ's playing 100's of tunes in total?!?!?

its a bit of a dodgy legal issue as north etc doesnt come with tracklistings

Louk

[Hakka.]

does that mean if I do a CD without track listings and sell it its ok?

not that I am, just trying to understand the legal side of it.

[Louk]

i dont think so i dont know how it works for mix cds but as tape packs are recordings of a night

if someone sold a recording of one of your livesets it might be different

Louk

[Hakka.]

quiet complicated. I mean if you go bigga records in plymouth there are several local dj's selling mix cd's for £3 to £5... is that wrong in a sense? or just small time so nobody cares?

Curious issue this.

[EmotionComplex]

perhaps when licensing a club your licensing the right to play the music in that club so your entitled to record the event?

or maybe the rules are stricter to digital media thats why you can get away with tapes?

[Hakka.]

perhaps when licensing a club your licensing the right to play the music in that club so your entitled to record the event?

or maybe the rules are stricter to digital media thats why you can get away with tapes?

what happens if its a CD recording of a tape?

mawahhahahaahhaah... !

[EmotionComplex]

thinking about it itll probobly be down to whatever label/publisher the cd is released under to get the permission to include the material on the release

[EmotionComplex]

perhaps when licensing a club your licensing the right to play the music in that club so your entitled to record the event?

or maybe the rules are stricter to digital media thats why you can get away with tapes?

what happens if its a CD recording of a tape?

mawahhahahaahhaah... !

lol! (head explodes)

[Louk]

technically (and also morally) it is wrong as the DJs have not paid the artists and the dj is getting profit for mixing it and for the artists music

i'd say the better djs are those who just sell the cds for the cost of the CD (and printing out inlays/etc)

I think its criminal that some DJs sell a CD full of only 10 tracks for £9 and I know a few in Plymouth do this.

oh well.

Louk

[Hakka.]

and what about mini-disc? or a CD containing and MP3 of the set?

or what about selling a zip file of an mp3 set which is zipped up over 100 floppy disks?

mwahahaha again!

[EmotionComplex]

yeah i think dj's get away with selling mix cds as there not going through any label or distributor as such, there bootlegs freely distributed by any shops etc there sent to, like those m zone ones on germantrance.com there all burnt on normal cds and in wallets with home priinted covers and recorded from a club



heres one for mark e.g actually, how did you go about getting the tracks for your techno transmissions and club experiments mixes? did you have to clear them befoer they were relesed on rumor or did romour have to do it?

[Louk]

also think its criminal when people give out free cds to their friends and even people who arent really good friend of there then charge me for them when I offer to write about htem and do so when I have valued them as a friend before.....

to some people its all about the money/business side of things

the best attitude is to keep it as a hobby i'd say - i know i'll never have a career working in music full time nor would want one.......

thats straying from the issue tho :)

Louk