movie soundtrack rights?

Question by haystack2082: movie soundtrack rights?
this is for people in “The Biz”. i have a small library of music on my computer. i’m thinking about making a small independent movie, and editing it together on my computer. i’ll probably just end up giving dvd copies to the people i can con into acting in the film, and there’s a 99.999% chance that it will never see the inside of a movie theater. if i use some of the music in my library for the soundtrack for the movie do i have to pay any kind of licensing fee, or any fee at all, for the rights to use the music? even if i still own the cd’s the music come from?

Best answer:

Answer by Brian F
Technically yes you do but as long as you don’t enter any film contests or try to broadcast it you should get away with it.

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