What is a Music Supervisor?
” A music supervisor oversees all aspects of music in a particular production and plays a key role in the development of the entire musical landscape. This may include facilitating a show’s creative needs with artists, songs and score, handling all licensing and contractual elements, dealing with the technical aspects of on-camera and studio production work, soundtrack solicitation and more. We are the liaisons between the music and production worlds. How does one license a song for use in a film or a television program? Once the creative decisions have been made with regards to a song, we locate and contact the master and copyright owners (usually, record labels own the master and a publishing company owns the copyright) and, based on a particular production’s music budget and the necessary licensing rights needed, we proceed with the negotiation process. Can I license a song that has never been published? Yes. A song can be licensed if it has not been previously published or register
