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Remix contest question
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| d_Verge |
Probably been asked before, but here goes.
Suppose you get hold of a remix pack, miss the deadline for the contest, but finish the project anyway. How do labels typically feel about you playing and/or sharing your remix? |
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| owien |
| quote: | Originally posted by d_Verge
Probably been asked before, but here goes.
Suppose you get hold of a remix pack, miss the deadline for the contest, but finish the project anyway. How do labels typically feel about you playing and/or sharing your remix? |
well for the most part they own the rights to that track so if you go round spining the remix track all over town then chances are you'll get ed for it.
but people do it all the time and providing you informed the label of you plans to play the tune you'll should be fine. |
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| Zombie0729 |
| quote: | Originally posted by owien
well for the most part they own the rights to that track so if you go round spining the remix track all over town then chances are you'll get ed for it.
but people do it all the time and providing you informed the label of you plans to play the tune you'll should be fine. |
not entirely. they own both the masters & publishing rights to the parts they gave. most competition rules say that all entries are then owned by XYZ label. yours might not be an official entry but if you downloaded the stems/parts from the competition website they will have proof you were intending on being an entry therefore owning your mix. The only gray area in remix competitions at the moment is publishing royalties because if Lexus decides to use your mix in their commercial they will register the use of the record with someone like BMI and 99.9% of the time the label will have that track registered (well maybe not your mix but the original). Most remix competitions don't state publishing rights very clearly.
enough boringness. you can send it wherever you'd like just don't try and make any money off it :) |
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| d_Verge |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zombie0729
not entirely. they own both the masters & publishing rights to the parts they gave. most competition rules say that all entries are then owned by XYZ label. yours might not be an official entry but if you downloaded the stems/parts from the competition website they will have proof you were intending on being an entry therefore owning your mix. The only gray area in remix competitions at the moment is publishing royalties because if Lexus decides to use your mix in their commercial they will register the use of the record with someone like BMI and 99.9% of the time the label will have that track registered (well maybe not your mix but the original). Most remix competitions don't state publishing rights very clearly.
enough boringness. you can send it wherever you'd like just don't try and make any money off it :) |
That's pretty much what I figured. This particular remix came out, imo, really good, so I'd hate to just sit on it. I don't really play out much myself, but I'm sure DJs would play it. Maybe I'll email the label as a courtesy anyway. And if the label listens to it and likes it, maybe the original artist might hear it and that would be cool enough for me. Still annoyed that I missed the deadline though. |
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