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NEW LISTING -- ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION-type INSTRUMENTAL CUES . . . . .The contract is Non-Exclusive but they ask that the material not be signed to any other library. . . .
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I'm a little confused. How is it non-exclusive if the material can't be signed to any other library? Doesn't that pretty much meet the definition of exclusive?

Just curious.

Richard

I think it means you can still do whatever you want with the music, ie. sell it on CD's, possibly even place it yourself. But you can't have it sitting in a competing library.

Kind of similar to another library you're involved in.

I was wondering the same thing too when I read that..
Semi-exclusive I think it could be called.. or non-exclusive except for..

It's just good practice to do this anyway. If you submit a tune to a NON-EXCLUSIVE library, you should then consider it as "off the market" to other libraries until the song is placed or removed from the first library.

Since it is non-exclusive, you are free to use it as you wish, even licensing it yourself. the key there is what YOU do with it, as opposed to placing it in more libraries.

Nothing ticks music people off more, than a film company licensing it, and then 4 libraries, all of which submitted it to the producer, coming in claiming it was "their" representation of the song that landed the cut...... everyone starts to fight over the money and things go south fast.

I think it simply means that they would prefer the content that isn't already available through other libraries. That's how I understand it.

M