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Originally Posted by drBill  I could suggest several, but I'm not going to even bother.
Buyout, licensed, non-buyout, stolen, whatever - if it's for broadcast you MUST file a cuesheet. The broadcaster (not to mention ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, etc.) require it for broadcast.
It's simple, it's free to do, most every library will help you and it helps the composers actually have a fighting chance at making a modest living. What's wrong with that?
You won't find any library that does not care if you don't file cue sheets. Sorry. |
Really? I worked as an editor at a post house that didn't do cue sheets, they said they didn't have to based on the terms of their library - they made not filing them as a condition of purchase for the library. The buyout price up front was how the library company made money. I don't know what library they were using, though (but they did pay for it!) - maybe they were lying to me, but we did do the odd bit for TV, all filled with library music, and I never heard a word about cue sheets. I'm happy to be wrong here, I'm not trying to dodge any responsibility, I just know that the manpower on the projects we're working on now to do this sort of thing is minimal to none.
Nothing we're doing now is destined for broadcast yet, it's all for YouTube and those ilk. How do we go about filing cue sheets for those? Does YouTube pay ASCAP/BMI etc? If it does ever get picked up to broadcast it would all be repurposed anyway, and at that point I could certainly convince them that cue sheets need to be filed.