ok the band im recording has a song about the virginia tech shooting from last spring. they want like this whole thing at the start of the song like for me to sample overlapping reporters voices and news reports saying like "horror at virginia tech" "this morning there was a massacre at virginia tech" etc. etc.
for those of you who are familiar the intro to "sacrificed sons" by dream theater you know what i mean.
my question is this: how does this work legally? a while ago i emailed cnn and abc just to see how it would work. someone from cnn got back to me saying that the samples i want to be used would be very costly in the ballpark of tens of thousands of dollars but that didn't make sense as i indicated in the email that it would be very very short, very very distorted. however i understand rules are rules.
is there anyone that can verify this. these guys aren't even signed, and i doubt this cd is going to be flying off the shelves but however i don't wanna get them into trouble by giving them wrong advice. i wanted to make it very distorted anyway with sirens and heartbeats on top of it and all types of effects. the whole intro would last like 30 seconds or so. unless someone has a loophole or a suggestion or information on further legal advice i was just going to resort to asking some of my friends preferably with "broadcast worthy" voices to record random generic headlines in the same fashion as let's say anderson cooper from cnn would. something like "you are now watching live footage from virginia tech university where there is a gunman on the loose" stuff like that.
for those of you who are familiar the intro to "sacrificed sons" by dream theater you know what i mean.
my question is this: how does this work legally? a while ago i emailed cnn and abc just to see how it would work. someone from cnn got back to me saying that the samples i want to be used would be very costly in the ballpark of tens of thousands of dollars but that didn't make sense as i indicated in the email that it would be very very short, very very distorted. however i understand rules are rules.
is there anyone that can verify this. these guys aren't even signed, and i doubt this cd is going to be flying off the shelves but however i don't wanna get them into trouble by giving them wrong advice. i wanted to make it very distorted anyway with sirens and heartbeats on top of it and all types of effects. the whole intro would last like 30 seconds or so. unless someone has a loophole or a suggestion or information on further legal advice i was just going to resort to asking some of my friends preferably with "broadcast worthy" voices to record random generic headlines in the same fashion as let's say anderson cooper from cnn would. something like "you are now watching live footage from virginia tech university where there is a gunman on the loose" stuff like that.
