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French Copyrights for Internet

By Jerry

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To whom it may concern,

We are a multimedia events company in Montreal, Canada and are looking for information concerning a public event we are organizing in Lyon, France. I'm not sure, exactly who we should be contacting for this but we have a hard time figuring out the procedures to clear music and video rights for our event. We communicated with the SACEM in France to clear the rights for public divulgation of music during the event but we need to know what to do in order to put the video of the live event on the Internet without breaking any laws on copyrights. During the event we would be using the songs listed bellow as well as some clips from very old black and white videos (at least 50 years old) that haven't been confirmed yet. Therefore, all thoses pieces would be accessible worldwide on the Internet after we film the event and put it online.

We would be using these very specific songs:

1. "Pagodes", by Claude Debussy, 4:30 mins. From the album "Debussy: Clair De Lune & Other Piano Works", performed by Alexis Weissenberg, ? 1986 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg.

2. "Il Pleure", by Claude Debussy, 3 mins, performed by Parker Shper.

3. "Fętes", Claude Debussy, 5:55 mins. From the album "Debussy Greatest Hits", conducted by "Michael Tilson Thomas".

4. "Feu d'artifice", by Igor Stravinsky, 1:25 mins. Unfortunately I have no other information on this piece (conductor, album, etc)

Since it's the first time we're not working with a lawyer on a public event, we are having trouble finding the right people to ask. I figured you could maybe help us in our research to find the rights we are looking for.

Thank you for your time and help!

Best regards,

Julie Bazoge

Studio coordinator

MOMENT FACTORY

T 514 843 8433 C 514 967 7666

julieb@momentfactory.com

www.momentfactory.com

Full post as published by IBLS Internet Law Blog on November 19, 2009 (boomark / email).