Advertising:

The Advertising, Film & Digital Media department has licensed and sourced music for some of the biggest campaigns and most of the major brands in the Australian market, including Toyota, Telstra, Cadburys, National Australia Bank, NRMA and Qantas. As well as negotiating the licences for all ads featuring our songs, we can provide creative assistance with all campaigns by sourcing and providing songs from our various catalogues.

Film:

The Advertising, Film & Digital Media department has been involved with many of the major films produced in Australia – from Happy Feet to Bra Boys and Home Song Stories. As well as supervising music for productions, we represent a sizeable local roster of talented composers who can provide original material for any project.

Internet & Emerging Technologies:

We are always looking for new markets in which to exploit our catalogues we welcome any opportunity to discuss new initiatives that could be of mutual benefit for generating royalties in areas such as the internet, mobile phone ring tones and computer games.

For advertising enquiries please contact:
Elise Lindsay – Advertising, Film & Digital Media Manager (elindsay@emimusicpub.com)

For all other licensing enquiries and general information please contact:
Ben McGowan – Client Services, Advertising, Film & Digital Media (bmcgowan@emimusicpub.com)

GENERAL Advice On Music Licensing and Clearing

Following is some general information on how to licence publishing rights for commercial music and contains answers to many FAQ’s.

Publishers vs. Record Companies:

There is often confusion between the role of Publishers and Record Companies - the basic functions of each may be described as follows:

Publishers:

Represent composers and songwriters and administer their songs (regardless of who has recorded them). Responsible for collecting monies on their behalf and making sure their work is exploited with their consent.

Record Companies:

Represent bands and artists and the recordings of songs that they make (the songwriter may or may not be part of the recording act). Responsible for selling and promoting records and work directly with the band or artist.

It is important to realise that EMI Records and EMI Music Publishing are effectively separate entities. If an artist records their songs on EMI Records, the songs they have written or recorded are not necessarily published by EMI Music Publishing. Equally EMI Music Publishing administer songs for artists that record on all of the other major labels as well as many independent labels.

Finding the Publisher:

In order to gain approval for the use of a song you need to know which publisher(s) you should be contacting. In cases where there is more than one publisher (usually when there is more than one writer and each is signed to a different publisher) you will need to gain approval from all of them before proceeding.

APRA/AMCOS can sometimes assist in obtaining publisher information, further useful sources are:

www.allmusic.com
www.ascap.com and www.bmi.com (for American tracks)
the record company
CD label copy (credit/liner notes of the CD)

Applying for Approval to Use a Song:

When applying to the Publisher for clearance of a song you will need to provide the following information:

- song title
-song writers (this is particularly important, as this is what our databases are based on and there are often many different songs bearing the same title).
- performer
- approximate duration of the use
- brief synopsis of the program / product
- description of the specific scene or context in which the song is to be featured
- media types on/in which the program/product will be broadcast/available (please be realistic in selecting media rights – broader rights will be reflected in fees)
- term (time period) for which you would like to licence for (term also has a large bearing on fees)

Once you have the necessary information please contact us directly and request a licensing request form which will be emailed to you.

Title Music:

Any music that is to be used over opening credits or end titles will be subject to an extra charge - if you intend to use the music over credits or titles you will need to declare this when you apply for approval to use the song.

Response Time:

We will endeavour to deal with your request and obtain a decision for you as soon as possible. However there will be many songs which take quite some time to gain a response on. This is often the case with high-profile and international songwriters. Due to time differences and our need to refer your requests via our foreign affiliate offices, it will take a minimum of 3-5 working days to get an answer on these requests and sometimes as much as 2 or 3 weeks depending on the writer or their representative's availability. This scenario is particularly relevant to songwriters from America and France. If you do not have the time available to wait for a response on a certain song, then please feel free to contact us and discuss using an alternative (as there are certain writers we can rely on to respond within 24 hours). In such situations we will do our best to try and help you find a replacement.

Receiving Approval:

When the use of a title has been approved we will notify you straight away via email. This means that our interest has been approved 'in principle' and you are free to edit it into your program in the declared context. Accordingly, if a request is declined we will notify you in the same fashion by returning your email appropriately marked. Once the program is completed we will then issue a license and invoice according to final durations used, which must be executed (and paid) prior to first screening of the program.