Sample Portion of Agreement
TV Music Rights License
Music Owner/Composer Name: _____________________________________
(Print Names)
Composition name: ______________________________________________
(Licensed music)
Publisher name: _________________________________________________
Length of Composition & Manner of Use: ______________________________
Producer name: __________________________________________________
Production Company: ______________________________________________
Project name: ___________________________________________________
Project Genre: ___________________________________________________
(sit-com, series, made-for-TV-movie, music video, televised stage musical, etc.)
Composition Use: ________________________________________________
(Vocal, vocal visual, vocal background, instrumental background, instrumental visual, etc.)
Herein this Agreement the independent Filmmaker is called the “Producer”.
1. In consideration of the payment of __________________, and upon the payment of it to the above named and undersigned Owner/Composer, the undersigned Owner/Composer does hereby grant to Licensee, (hereafter the “Producer”), the non-exclusive, irrevocable right and license to record the following copyrighted musical composition(s) (the "Compositions") in synchronization or timed-relation with a Project produced by the above named and below signed Producer (the "Project") for television broadcast and exhibition only, as named above.
2. This is a License to record only, and the exercise of the Recording Rights herein granted is conditioned upon performance of the Composition(s) over television stations having valid Licenses from the copyright owner ("the Owner/Composer"), or from the person, firm, corporation or other entity having the legal Right to issue Performance Rights' Licenses for the Owner/Composer in the respective Territory/Territories in which the Composition(s) shall be performed. The Composition(s) shall not be used in any manner and media or be recorded for any other purpose, except those specifically set forth herein, without the express written consent of the Owner/Composer. No sound recordings produced pursuant to this License are to be manufactured, sold and/or used separately from the Project; and the Project shall not be exhibited in or televised into theaters or other public places of amusement where motion Projects are customarily exhibited.
3. This license is granted for the following Territory/Territories only: ____________________________________________________________.
4. This license shall end on _____________________, 20______. Upon such date Rights herein granted shall immediately cease and end, and the Right derived from this License to make or authorize any further use . . . (continued)