It means that if the copyright owners come after me - which they can - and are successful, I can make the production pay the damages and legal fees. So my lawyer insisted on the indemnification sentence, and that the production supplies the music from their own library. ![]() That's wrong on so many counts: the license is only for the notes and words as written on paper, it only applies to their own station, a spot becomes an authorized derivative work, the recording is a separate copyright owned by the band or record company. They always insisted that the songs they gave me were covered by their ASCAP and BMI annual licenses. I used to do a lot of TV spots for radio stations around the country. ![]() What you really need is a clause indemnifying you against copyright actions for anything the production provides. Nothing can make Apple (or anyone other than the production) not sue you, if they want to. I don't have anything in the contract that makes me responsable for the copyright
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