Monday, March 11, 2013

Week 9: letters of permission

I chose three letters of permission that i felt would be helpful in my field of audio production. They go over how to compose the letter, and ask for samples, pieces, choruses, to use in your project.

Here are the three that i chose.

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 Sample Letter to Receive Permission to Use Music for Senior Choreography Project 
To Whom It May Concern:
I am a senior student at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts in Dallas, TX and one of my graduation requirements is a final senior project. I have chosen a choreographic project and am very interested in using (Name of Music)
by (Composer) . One of my requirements is to secure permission to use the music so that I may learn the proper procedure to secure permission to use a copyrighted piece of music. It is an educational project in a public performing arts high school and the performance is free to the public and the school is not making any profit.
My senior choreography project is about
and I believe that your music will help me portray this idea through movement. You will receive credits in the program with the title of the work, composer,
recording company (if required), and the album.
You may send written permission via e‐mail to: (Name of Student) and (Student Email Address). Thank you so much in advance for your time and careful consideration.
Sincerely,
(Name of Student)
Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts, Dallas, TX



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[Place on your school’s letterhead, if available]

[Name of Movie Company]
[Street Address]
[Address]

Re:       [Name of Middle School] Multimedia Yearbook

Dear Sir or Madam:

We are putting together a DVD-ROM multimedia yearbook for our school, [name of school].

We understand that you are the owner of the copyright in the musical composition “[name of song]” and want to include the song in the yearbook.  We want to use [the entire song] or [# of minutes of the song] in the yearbook as [state use, for example, as background to video clips of the class during the school year].

Since we are on a limited budget and distribution of the yearbook will be only to students and the administration of our school, we are hoping that you will allow us this use without any charge.  If this is not possible, please let us know what fee would be required for this use. 

Your signature below, under “confirmed by,” will indicate that you will agree to permit this use without payment of a fee.  Please let us know if you have any questions concerning this license.  Also would you please let us know as soon as possible if this song cannot be licensed so that artistic changes may be made in the songs to be included in the production.  You can reach us in care of [name of teacher advisor], [name of school],[address of school], [telephone number of yearbook or school office], [e-mail address of teacher advisor or yearbook committee]. 

Thank you for your help with this matter and we look forward to hearing from you.

Very truly yours,


[Name of Student]


[Name of Teacher Advisor]

Confirmed by:

LICENSOR


_________________________
[Name of the Music Publisher]


http://www.copyrightkids.org/letters.html

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[Name of Movie Company]
[Street Address]
[Address]

Re:      [Name of Middle School] Multimedia Yearbook

Dear Sir or Madam:

We are putting together a DVD-ROM multimedia yearbook for our school, [name of school].

We understand that you are the owner of the copyright in the musical composition “[name of song]” and want to include the song in the yearbook.  We want to use [the entire song] or [# of minutes of the song] in the yearbook as [state use, for example, as background to video clips of the class during the school year].

Since we are on a limited budget and distribution of the yearbook will be only to students and the administration of our school, we are hoping that you will allow us this use without any charge.  If this is not possible, please let us know what fee would be required for this use. 

Your signature below, under “confirmed by,” will indicate that you will agree to permit this use without payment of a fee.  Please let us know if you have any questions concerning this license.  Also would you please let us know as soon as possible if this song cannot be licensed so that artistic changes may be made in the songs to be included in the production.  You can reach us in care of [name of teacher advisor], [name of school],[address of school], [telephone number of yearbook or school office], [e-mail address of teacher advisor or yearbook committee]

Thank you for your help with this matter and we look forward to hearing from you.

Very truly yours,


[Name of Student]


[Name of Teacher Advisor]

Confirmed by:

LICENSOR


_________________________
[Name of the Music Publisher]

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