Yesterday i got an email from beatpick, the guys that sync up my music for commercial use. Although my tunes are under a by creative commons attribution license, corporate films need a better contract to use content than what the license provides. I’m not going to say the name of the film that have chosen the track, yet its great news that my tunes are going to be used in a major film production that has a global release.
As I have quit with my rights organization APRA in australia, i don’t stand to get any income from the use of the content in media. I really do want my content to be used freely though, so i’m really quite ok with this. I’m looking at this as a good opportunity for me to get live gigs.
I just phoned another venue in Norway that told me “we only book bands in our town that are known”. Not sure that having this track used in this film is going to get me known in that town. This is great publicity though, although i’m anti the established media and the monopolization of rights. i’m not anti my music being played all over the place. slightly brings back my faith in the way things are. thanks for using my tunes in the film.
