COMP 3: Permission Email

A Level Media Studies

This blog shows the permission email (written by Maxi) to the artist's record label for approval to use their music in our music promotion package project. This blog is written by me (Sharon).

We have chosen Sabrina Carpenter's song, 'Feather', for the music in our music video. I (Sharon) volunteered to do the research on which record label Sabrina was under, that is the Universal Music Group. After all, I found this link 'https://www.universalmusic.com/contact-us/' which states the email to whom we can contact to permit a license for this Comp 3 project. The email address was licensinginfo@umusic.com. Maxi then wrote the request email as follows:

However, we did not get any responses back from Universal Music Group, but we decided to go with it as long as it is being used for the right reasons.

Self Reflection: Although we didn't get any replies back from Universal Music Group, it felt like it was the right thing to do before using this on our Comp 3 project. It was also due to that it didn't feel right to use property (their music) without sending a request beforehand. However, it allowed us to take accountability for using the song for the right reasons and in a professional way despite not receiving any response back from the record label. I also understood better how to research for certain information, in this case, to whom we send the email to. We learned to acknowledge the need to request a license permit from private corporations the next time we have a project that involves using their property, such as music.