Description

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This book is everything a musician, filmmaker, or content user needs to know about placing music into film, TV, games, and commercials. Created for musicians and music supervisors, this comprehensive compendium of real-life licensing and music placement examples will lead the musician, writer, or potential content acquirer down the path of music rights do's and don'ts. Music licensing and rights terms are defined as well as detailed description on the clearance process. Culled from numerous speaking engagements and twenty-five years in the music industry, veteran music executive Brooke Wentz brings to light her thoughts on current rights issues and how we are moving closer to a copyright cartel. This book reveals the secrets to content acquisition and the innuendos involved for securing music, one of the most complex and always changing IP's to lock down.

About the Author

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Brooke Wentz (San Francisco) has music supervised numerous independent and documentary films, television shows, and film soundtracks since 1989. She headed up the music department for ESPN networks throughout the world and was Manager A&R Administration for Arista Records. She is critically acclaimed for her creative work as a producer of over twenty-five recordings of world music, including the Billboard Award-winning Global Meditation, Africa: Never Stand Still, Voices of Forgotten Worlds, and Global Divas. Through her business, the Rights Workshop, she represents issues relating to licensing, publishing, and digital rights, and gives frequent seminars on music and copyright issues.