Phase 3 Planning - Copyright Permission letter

For the right to use an artists music in our video, we have to write to the artist to ask for there permission to use it.

Here is our letter that we will use.

The letter reads,

Dear Sir or Madam

I am a student of Media studies at A level and would like permission to use your song Swimming pools by Kendrick Lamar, for a music video we are planning to produce as part of our course. This would involve having the track play over our video that we have produced originally as an interpretation of the song. This would be for educational purposes and not screened to an audience.

This was written by Aidan in our group, and we'll all use this letter for permission.

It's important to get Kendrick's permission for the use of his song, as he's the only one that can claim ownership of the song. No one but him can claim copyright of the song or use it without permission, unless an agreement is made, for example the letter we wrote to him.