What do you do when you come across a blank wall?

[mikelyons]

This is one for Roger, I think.

I would like to do an arrangement of a piece of copyright music. I have found out the copyright owner after a long search and tried to contact them to ask permission. I have come up against a dead end. Although I asked months ago, I have had absolutely no response from them. (BMG). In another thread, you mentioned a 'standard form' which I searched for but could not find. What can I do now?

 

[jobriant]

The wrong wall, perhaps?

Mike Lyons wrote, in part:

> I would like to do an arrangement of a piece of
> copyright music. I have found out the copyright
> owner ... [but] I have had absolutely no response
> from them. (BMG). ...

I wonder if you have the right copyright owner. BMG is a recording company, and they presumably own copyright on a recording of this particular composition. But are they the PUBLISHER of the original printed edition? That's who you need to contact.

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