Rick Dolishny
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The guys at the Juice are very helpful and should be able to write a short not on letterhead saying that the “royalty free” tracks they license to you are in fact “royalty free”.
But really, that’s what royalty free is. I understand clients can be a bit troublesome; it sounds to me like your direct client might be caught in the middle of you and their legal department.
Be nice to her/him and tell them it’s ok and kindly ask Juice to write you a very quick note.
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Rick Dolishny
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Demo reel.
Research the company and identify a weakness and if you can do fix it, deliver what they aren’t doing at the moment.
Don’t discuss it with THEM it’s their weakness, just pitch it and if they are good clients they will make the connection and call you in for a longer chat.
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[Milton hockman] “Can you share methods and locations to find small business clients? Ones that I can create projects for that don’t take weeks to create.”
I’m going to assume you’re not kidding, and second hitting Craigslist.
[Milton hockman] “get some quick cash coming in.”
Have you been reading the papers lately?
Keep your job and hanker down for 18 months and be thankful you’re employed.
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Rick Dolishny
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You can go to small claims court for anything under $5K and the court can order him to pay and he can ignore the court anyway. Plus you just paid for your own legal fees out of pocket.
Sounds like you’ve been lucky up to this point with your invoices after the fact.
Then again, if your work isn’t up to standard for whatever reason he has a right to not pay as long as he doesn’t use it.
Talk to him and try to negotiate a stipend for the work you did which will be less than you wanted, but perhaps you might be able to amortize a small hourly rate out of the gig.
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Rick Dolishny
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You should only release the final animation after being paid in full.
If you gave up the animation without a watermark or timecode burn without payment in full, then you just learned a lesson.
Sorry, looks like you won’t get paid for this one.
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Rick Dolishny
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[Jamie Kehoe] “A great source of royalty free tracks is http://www.freeplaymusic.com, I have used a number of their tracks in several productions and haven’t paid a cent other than the time it took to search, listen and download a track.”
Uhhhh, you mean you download the track and if you like it you pay the modest fee for non-broadcast which last I checked was about $25-$50USD. Right?!?
If not you might want to keep your decisions to yourself. Scott and the guys at FPM have done business with me in the past and they are good guys and deserve to be paid.
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Rick Dolishny
Discrete Editors COW Leader
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I finally logged in, created an account, and checked out the track listings. I LOVE the idea of a simple, easy to use site like this.
BUT, lots of Motown and K-Tel covers.
Does anyone know of any alternatives?
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Rick Dolishny
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That is amazing. Thanks for the link.
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Rick Dolishny
Discrete Editors COW Leader
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I enjoy using the products from 37signals.com. Basecamp is awesome for project management and their newer product Highrise might be the online CRM you are looking for.
I have not used Highrise but have used Basecamp and went pro for a big project (it was super easy to discontinue too). I like the company culture, thumbs up here.
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Rick Dolishny
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The forum you seek is Event Videographer here on the COW and I think this industry is in for a rude awakening.
It’s called ‘sync’ music if there is video playing while you can hear the music clearly front and centre, then you will have a copyright infringement on your hands.
The DJ paid his fees but you didn’t so you can’t deliver it to the bride with the DJs music.
Now, that’s pretty tough to enforce and I agree the RIAA has bigger fish to fry. But what you’re doing is technically illegal.
The far greater problem is that brides want these lovely montages of the day, or SDE (Same Day Edits) to the song-of-the-day and that’s a blatant copyright infringement that the wedding industry goes as far as to promote and celebrate and issue awards for ‘editing excellence’. See any WEVA award short-list. Even if there are sync rights for current tracks, they would be horrendously expensive.
I am a partner in a wedding video business and have recently upgraded all of our music to Royalty Free, and that’s all we post now on the web. In the short term, I may be losing out to my competitors and their Leona Lewis tracks, but I’m banking on copyright Armageddon in the wedding business and it will come soon.
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Rick Dolishny
Discrete Editors COW Leader
http://www.thecreativeprocess.ca