Obtaining the Music

Welcome back my lovely readers, today is the day that production has started. The first step was to obtain legal right to use the song Always Forever by Cults. I was very unsure at first as to how I need to obtain this.

I first researched how one must get legal permission. I found out there are two separate forms of copyright. These being one for the song itself and the recording of the song. Being that I would need the actual song, I would need to get both forms of copyright.

I also researched how to get legal permission of these rights and found an article about it. The article said that they had emailed the label of the artist. I decided I would do the same.

I went to Apple Music and went to the album Static. Static was the album that Always Forever was on. At the bottom of the album it mentions Columbia Records. After searching on the internet what label Cults belongs to, I got the same result.

From there, I went to Columbia Record's website to find an email. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find one on their website. Instead, I searched online for their email and found it on a secondary website.

I then formulated the email. I made sure to include how this song will be used as well as my contact information. I then sent the email and hope they reply soon.

The process of attempting to obtain legal permission for a song is complicated. There is information online about it, but it is still a difficult thing.