To license a song in our catalog for Film, TV or multimedia please email:

Dave Tough, Licensing Director at
dave@davetough.com

Real Life Music Publishing offers both sync and mechanical licenses for all the compositions in our catalog, most for a nominal fee compared to other major publishers. We normally license sync requests directly and license mechanicals through the Harry Fox Agency.

Before you contact us, please know that licenses are contractual documents - make sure you are familiar with the "basics" of music licensing and consult your attorney before signing any documents.

MUSIC LICENSING BASICS

Synchronization licensing is the licensing of songs for visual images (i.e. films, commercials, etc.). This license conveys synchronization rights from the controller of the copyright-sometimes one publisher, sometimes two or more--to a music user. If you hear a song on TV or in a movie theater, the music user has obtained a sync license from the music publisher for the song, and has also licensed the master recording of that song through a separate master use license from the record company.

Mechanical licensing is the licensing of songs for audiotape or compact disc. A mechanical license gives a record company or other party the right to reproduce the songwriter's composition on a record. Mechanical rights are given in order to reproduce the song on actual CD's and tapes, and to sell the reproduced copies to the public. It is the responsibility of record labels to pay mechanical royalties to the owner of the song and their music publisher for the sale of CD's or tapes. RLMP negotiates this license through Harry Fox with the record company who wants to record any of our writer's songs.

More questions?? Please email us at
dave@davetough.com