Question about using a BB remix on a cd

[dfast]

Couldn't find enough information about this case, so I decided to post a new topic.

I'm working on a cd and I'm going to press 300 copies of it and sell to my friends and use in promotional matters. I'd like to include a BB remix in the cd, but I've no idea who to ask for permission.

AFAIK Grand Royal owns the rights to Ill Communication (the remix is of the song Root Down) but Grand Royal hasn't been alive for some years now. BB supposedly started the whole label, so I wonder if all the rights remained to the boys themselves and thus all I'd need is a permission from the artists themselves. But I've no idea who (or how) to contact about it.

I did write an email to Capitol Records about this case.

My attempt being barely commercial, I'm hoping that getting the permission would be far from impossible.

Anyone with ideas on this thing or contact information towards which I should direct my permission seeking missile?

And I'm sorry beforehand if (most likely positive) this sort of a case has been discussed here earlier.

To clear a possible misunderstanding, the remix is entirely made by me and I only used the BB a cappella in it.

[Nygel]

http://beastieboys.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=77676

[dfast]

did read that thread but it still doesn't answer my question. who to contact (and what's the contact info) in case I'd want to include the remix in a cd?

[faz]

did read that thread but it still doesn't answer my question. who to contact (and what's the contact info) in case I'd want to include the remix in a cd?

It doesn't answer your question directly, no. But it does state that, as far as we know, selling them is still illegal.

Although doesn't the amount of copies you intend to sell matter? I remember reading something with DJ Shadow in which he said that he released funky skunk at a certain amount of copies so that it was in some grey area between bootleg and commercial release meaning he didn't have to pay so much royalty fee's (if any). Of course I could be talking out my ass. I cant seem to find the journal section on shadows site so I cant go read it again (I'm pretty sure he posted it on the journal section).

[silence7]

People have asked before in the forums about who to contact to use a song in a commercial release, be it a movie, or a CD, and the answer I've seen a couple times is contact Capitol Records (http://www.capitolrecords.com).

Silence7

[Tammeloeki]

Realize that, if you get permission, you will have to pay royalties to the owner of the copyright...I think that you will not make money with this album. Maybe you should just use an acapella from an unsigned artist...

[dfast]

no response from capitol records yet. and I'm not asking if it's ok to use the a cappella, I'm asking for a written permission (I know there are tons of laws in the music biz, let it be concerning signed artists, super stars or unknown talents.) I don't think it would be impossible to get a permission for using a BB a cappella, but it sure would need some paper work and perhaps some slight (or a lot of) royalties. hopely I'll get a response from the capitol rec soon - or even better: from the BB/their manager himself.

right now this case is just for future reference, because I'm releasing the cd without this remix. I'm currently mastering the album and not going to try my luck with the remix. will probably spam the album in the other music section of this board ;)