Permission Email

This blog shows the permission email I've written to the artist's record label for approval to use their music in our music promotion package project.

To understand why this blog was essential to our project, I first looked into the importance of copyright. Copyright grants exclusive rights to the creators of original music, which allows them to control the usage of their work. Licensing is a legal agreement that grants permisison to use copyright music.

We had chosen our music video to cover Rina Sawayama's song 'Catch Me In The Air' and were told we had to request the license for the music. I researched the label in which Rina Sawayama was under (Dirty Hit Record) but I found that the licensing agent was under Universal Music Publishing Group. Their Contact Us page on their website led me to this email, communications@umusic.com. I wrote the request email as follows;

As I had expected, we did not receive a response. However, we decided to move forward with our project as we felt as though we aren't misusing or profiting off our music video.

Self-Reflection: Although I did not receive a response as expected, I did understand the importance of this task as a form of respect by crediting the original artist. It felt good knowing I had done the right thing before continuing to post our music video publicly. 

Problems : A problem that occured for me is during writing the actual email itself since I wasn't sure what information was necessary to provide.

Solution : To fix my problem, I had looked up several examples to reference as well as former A-level taker's example of a permission email.