Adam wrote:I jumped out of my chair when it came on during teh Oscars. It was the best moment of teh whole show.
The only ones who need to approve a song's use are the owner of the publishing and the owner of the master. The record company is probably the latter, and I don't have the CD on hand to see who is the former. Generally it needs to be approved if you are taking the music and using it in a different medium (for example, TV broadcast). The song could be put on a compilation CD with less approval than that. And teh songwriter(s) could easily have given the publisher the right to approve the song's use in their contract, without the publisher being required to contact the writer. So it is certainly possible that none of the Pogues necessarily knew that it was being licensed for use.
(from a guy who has had to license music)
We own the rights to our songs. They are currently licensed to, depending on the author, BMG, Perfect Songs and Wardlaw-Banks. Because we retain the rights, it is likely that permission would be sought from the writer(s) of "Sunnyside Of The Street". As you suggest, Warners control the copyrights in the actual recording,
