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cell phone rings
Okay – I need to find some answers to yet another client conundrum.
I just received a spot from a client for broadcast, which they produced themselves. It contains a cell phone ring that is a song. The whole spot has “We Will Rock You” ring. It’s not the actual song, but tones.
My question is, are cell phone tone rings copyrighted material? I can’t see how it couldn’t be… since it is still a song which someone had to compose.
This client is not a cell phone company.
TIA – TC -
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Re: Buffett:
They’re pretty protective of his image as well. We shot a Buffett concert when the Flamingo opened the LV Margaritaville. His staffers ( seemed like a group of ol’ blue hairs – mommy types) almost went shot-for-shot over the concert tapes, deciding what we could or could not use…(no…looks too old…no, looks like he’s stoned…ok – up until he turns – we don’t like his hair that way…)
The concert was a hoot – they took a 6 acre pool site (three pools in a themed island setting) and filled them in with sand, creating a beach so they could do the concert. Ther real kicker was the guy who rented the sand traded out the sand and transport for ten tickets to the concert – that’s 150 large 32′ live well dumps full – about 25k worth of the stuff.
Cheers,
Frank Otto
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Thanks Dave! I feel like the copyright police sometimes. But it’s like I’m the only one that cares about it. It is amazing some of the crap that people try to push onto TV. I can imagine how a Julia Roberts mask would go over in this market – did she sell her house in Santa Fe yet? ;^)
I think it is about time to get management involved. Even though the spots are produced out of house, they end up on our air.
Thanks. TC
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