1. Rob Robinson

    CEO / Creative Director at Clicked Creative

    13 March 2006 16:37pm

    Rob Robinson

    We've been asked to provide a music track overlay for a clients website and they seem to think we can use any piece of music (eg Madonna) from any source as long as it's not over 30 seconds long. Also we'd need to loop it about 6 times making it 3 minutes in total. Is this legitimate?

  2. dan barker

    E-Business Consultant at Dan Barker

    14 March 2006 10:12am

    dan barker

    unfortunately no, you need to be licensed. full details of online music licensing are available on the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society/Performing Rights Society website:

    http://www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.uk/redirect.asp?targetitem=1946&subjectId=836

  3. Rob Taylor

    Director at Fat Horse New Media Limited

    14 March 2006 16:53pm

    Rob Taylor

    Absolutely not. You'll need to get MCPS (publishing) rights for use on a website, and if it's an original artist record company (synch) rights as well. For an artist like Madonna this would be naturally quite expensive. check out the guys at www.tracklicensing.com for further advice and a good choice of tracks.

    On 16:37:39 13 March 2006 RobRobinson wrote:
    >We've been asked to provide a music track overlay for a
    >clients website and they seem to think we can use any
    >piece of music (eg Madonna) from any source as long as
    >it's not over 30 seconds long. Also we'd need to loop it
    >about 6 times making it 3 minutes in total. Is this
    >legitimate?

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