Music Clearance Defined

Published: Fri, 01/07/11

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Music Clearance Defined
One of the reasons there are lots of opportunities for independent musicians to get their music licensed is that it is easier to get legal permission from the writer/copyright holder of an independent song than it is to get the rights to use a "hit" song. This is something that in the music licensing industry is known as "music clearance".

What is music clearance? It's simply getting permission from whomever owns the rights to the song to use the song in a production. With more established songs and artists there is typically much more legal hoopla to jump through and of course the song itself will be much more expensive to license as well. This is why many productions actually prefer to work with indie artists in this domain. It's less expensive, easier and more efficient to license music from unestablished artists. Ahhh.... there is justice in the world afterall!

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Happy Songwriting!
Aaron Davison
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