Track Permission.

After listening to many unsigned bands and gained permission from a few we liked, we felt the tracks weren't giving us an initial feeling as to what we could do with them for a music video.
Patricia and myself had been listening to the band Marianas Trench for a while and as we both really liked them I decided to see if it was possible to contact their record label for permission.

I started by going onto their record label's website and then went onto the general contact page where I wrote this email to email them:

"Dear 604 Records,

We are two students, aged 17, from England doing a College A-Level coursework project for Media Studies. This project requires us to do a music video.
Our College is George Spencer College in Nottinghamshire, UK. The requirements of our coursework states that if a band is signed we need permission from the record label of the artist and the track should not already have a music video. The music video would not be used for commercial means and would only be put onto Youtube and our blogs we make for our coursework project.

We are huge fans of Marianas Trench and would be honoured if you could please grant us permission to use one of their tracks that don't already have a music video.
The track we would love to do a music video for is 'Sing Sing' from the Masterpiece Theatre album.

We look foward to hearing back from you,

Thanks,

Shaneece Deep & Patricia Sheehan of George Spencer College - UK."

I then heard back from Jonathan Simkin, one of the founders of the record label the next day who asked said it would be okay if I let him know exactly what we are doing and if it wasn't for any commercial means. So I emailed him back saying that it was merely for our A-Level studies in order to acheive a grade towards our qualification for Media Studies and then he granted us permission to use the track.

The email was as follows:


Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 03:34:41 -0700
Subject: Re: Marianas Trench
From: jonathan@604records.com
To: shaneece_deep@hotmail.com

Hi Shaneece.

On the basis of this note, the permission is granted.
Thanks.

JS


On 10-09-07 3:30 AM, "shaneece deep" wrote:

Hi Jonathan,

This won't be used for any commercial means as it is merely a school/college project for our subject of Media Studies in order for us to get a grade towards our qualification for A-Level Media Studies.

Basically the project outline is to make a music video to a track that we have permission for;
We would have to film a music video that we devise for the track and then after we have put it together we would upload it onto Youtube.com or another video streaming website for our examiners. It will not be used anywhere else for any commercial/promotional means.

As we need to document the permission to use the track for our examiners; if we could have your permission to use the track 'Sing Sing' by Mariana's Trench it would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Shaneece Deep & Patricia Sheehan

Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 21:59:08 -0700
Subject: Marianas Trench
From: jonathan@604records.com
To: shaneece_deep@hotmail.com

Message body Hi Shaneece. This is probably OK as long as the video is not used for any commercial means whatsoever. Can you tell me EXACTLY what you will do with it?

Thanks.

Jonathan Simkin