Planning: copyright letter

Whilst planning a music video one of our tasks to create a copyright letter which I’d send to the record company of diplo music regarding the usage of one of his singles. this letter was purposely wrote to explain how this single will contribute towards our A Level grades. It was vital that we wrote this letter as it clarifies our intentions and stops the company from taking any legal actions such as getting sued. 

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Oasis Academy Hadley

South Street

Enfield

London

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Date:

RE: Use of single, ‘Oh-Well’

Dear copyright holder,

                                                We are ‘esoteric records’ and I am writing to you from Oasis Academy Hadley 6th Form in order to request for authorization of the single 'oh well.' We ask for permission for this audio simply to create a music video which is required in our A2 Media Advanced Portfolio coursework.

We are a group of students who are hoping for your permission in order to produce a creative music video that reflects our own creative ideas. Our coursework task involves creating a music video with a song of our choice, and we have chosen G eazy’s single because of the mainstream sounds it provides which can be very appealing to our target audience. In addition the themes it portrays are suitable for our audience category’s chosen

If we received your permission, this track would ONLY be used for educational purposes only and for the OCR exam board moderator. It would not be used for promotional reasons and we have no intention to display this video for commercial use.

I and the rest of my group would be very privileged if you take our request into consideration and give us the authority to use the audio. The artist and your company would of course be recognized throughout pre-production work, through the actual video production as well as being credited if you please on our work blogs. A copyright notice with wording supplied by you can be included in the records of the project if you would like us to do so. If this is required, please send the full details.

Thank you very much for reading this letter.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Khaled Jaffer

Gizem Mayil

Lara Lawal

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After creating a copyright letter we then made an attempt to send it off to his manager's inquiry email account, stating that we would use the track strictly is for educational purposes, to prevent any illegal issues with the artist. A few weeks down the line and we have had no response from the account we sent the email to. As a result of this if we was to be convicted of copyright we could simply say we did ask for permission and they didn't respond.